Lowering woes
DeadRiverKiwi
Band Wagon
Hello All,
I bought my '91 4wd wagon about a year back and knew almost nothing about cars. It looked cool, was pretty cheap, was 4wd, and got ~35 mpg. Awesome.
I've done a little bit of work here and there to fix a few things that have been going wrong, and in the meantime, have been learning how to do this stuff so that I can buy parts off of rockauto and do it myself for 30% of the cost! (go-go self-employed entrepreneur w/ grant funding)
Come this year: I take it to Midas for an inspection that I fully (naively) expect to pass and suddenly... whabam! $1500 bill to get it back on the road with a stupid sticker in the window
Anywho, long story short, I was able to do most of it myself and the reason that this post is in the suspension/braking/wheels category is because one of the line items was that my front tires were worn on the inside (to shit). I finally feel confident enough to ask for assistance on what I need to take my wagon with a lowering kit and find the cheapest/best solution to get the sucker back into camber. I think I can do the work myself, so I just need to figure out which parts are going to get me where I need to be... (I think I'm off by -3% on the rear and -2.1%(ish) on the front) Are there cheap solutions? Which solutions are the best bang for my buck at this point?
Thanks!
I bought my '91 4wd wagon about a year back and knew almost nothing about cars. It looked cool, was pretty cheap, was 4wd, and got ~35 mpg. Awesome.
I've done a little bit of work here and there to fix a few things that have been going wrong, and in the meantime, have been learning how to do this stuff so that I can buy parts off of rockauto and do it myself for 30% of the cost! (go-go self-employed entrepreneur w/ grant funding)
Come this year: I take it to Midas for an inspection that I fully (naively) expect to pass and suddenly... whabam! $1500 bill to get it back on the road with a stupid sticker in the window
Anywho, long story short, I was able to do most of it myself and the reason that this post is in the suspension/braking/wheels category is because one of the line items was that my front tires were worn on the inside (to shit). I finally feel confident enough to ask for assistance on what I need to take my wagon with a lowering kit and find the cheapest/best solution to get the sucker back into camber. I think I can do the work myself, so I just need to figure out which parts are going to get me where I need to be... (I think I'm off by -3% on the rear and -2.1%(ish) on the front) Are there cheap solutions? Which solutions are the best bang for my buck at this point?
Thanks!
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Oh, and this is not Internet hear-say. This is my own personal real life experience (25 years worth) with lowered Hondas.
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