monkyrench49
Forum Member
I installed the SUMO SF 2" lift kit this weekend with two friends of mine on my MY02 the Hulk.
The fronts were half an hour of me by myself, but the rears were kind of a pain.
I have drum brakes in the rear, and all the brake line fittings are rusty. so i didnt trust them to take them appart to remove the strut. instead we compressed the springs with spring compressors and the strut with a ratchet strap to access the tophat.
if there was some good way of re-attaching the clip on the strut for the brake line after cutting it the kit would have gone one in probably 2 hours. I didn't trust a hard line only supported at one end, nor did i want to weld with the rubber line attached, so we had to work around it.
i made trailing arm spacers myself literaly the exact same way as SUMO. honestly to save the trouble i probably should have just ordered them.
Everything popped for a few minutes test driving it, but that was just the old suspension settling back into place.
Road manners with the tires are terrible. the lift kit didnt make it any worse.
People often stop and almost stare. also, you are much more likely to run stuff over after installing this kit. it's sweet
the picture of the hulk on the side of the road is stock ride height
The fronts were half an hour of me by myself, but the rears were kind of a pain.
I have drum brakes in the rear, and all the brake line fittings are rusty. so i didnt trust them to take them appart to remove the strut. instead we compressed the springs with spring compressors and the strut with a ratchet strap to access the tophat.
if there was some good way of re-attaching the clip on the strut for the brake line after cutting it the kit would have gone one in probably 2 hours. I didn't trust a hard line only supported at one end, nor did i want to weld with the rubber line attached, so we had to work around it.
i made trailing arm spacers myself literaly the exact same way as SUMO. honestly to save the trouble i probably should have just ordered them.
Everything popped for a few minutes test driving it, but that was just the old suspension settling back into place.
Road manners with the tires are terrible. the lift kit didnt make it any worse.
People often stop and almost stare. also, you are much more likely to run stuff over after installing this kit. it's sweet
the picture of the hulk on the side of the road is stock ride height
to ORS.
Gotta' ask, what tires are you running???
