96 Tacoma 4 x 4 and the people I bought it from said I had a 6 inch lift and it appears to be totally custom and I can't align it because the camber is too steep in weren 96 Tacoma 4 x 4 and the people I bought it from said I had a 6 inch lift and it appears to be totally custom and I can't align it because the camber is too steep in wards they apparently torched the knuckles and there is no control arm and appears to have two shocks and I don't know how to fix the camber on it, and what lift is this the brand ? The camber is maxed out to , they said it's almost like its missing something else for the 6" lift

 

Yikes. The non coil over shock inst supposed to be there, and your missing the upper control arm... This looks scary. You cant adjust camber, because whoever hacked it together didnt put camber adjustments in to that strut thing. (ha!) Also missing the bottom bushing in the coil over, but thats not your biggest worry right now. How does it drive?

 

It's pretty bouncy , stuff also idk what to do, I almost feel like selling it, engine is new and its cherry tho

 

It's pretty bouncy , stuff also idk what to do, I almost feel like selling it, engine is new and its cherry tho

 

That is totally ghetto, it needs the upper control arm to function properly and like said to adjust things for alignment. IMO, it's too late to go back to a regular lift (although nothing is impossible)

Your best bet might be to do a solid axle swap or like you suggested, sell it. It doesn't look particularly dangerous but it is not engineered properly, or at all really lol. Who knows what vehicle that strut is actually for.... I hope you find some sort of resolution, whoever sold you that isn't a very nice person.

 

Wow, they converted it to a McPherson strut front end!

Assuming you don't yank all that crap off there and donate it to the local landfill, then the camber/caster would be adjusted by moving around that upper mounting point for that 'second' coil back/forth (caster) and left/right (camber).

If there are no adjustments on the top of it, you could try to add some camber plates to the mix to add some adjustability. I'm not saying that adding more 'stuff' to this mix would make it any better, of course, but it might let you dial in some better alignment.

 

Thats past a McPherson strut setup, thats a basterdized Independant-McPherson creation. I am not sure if you could even add camber plates and move that other strut, because it looks like the outside strut, might contact the inside strut depending on how bad the camber is off. And then, what alignment shop is going to want to align that thing and stand behind the alignment? Yeah, if I was you, I would start looking for a Waggy 44, because if you sell that thing you are going to take a big loss or you may have somebody coming after you legally or illegally depending on the person if you didn't disclose it.

 

Yeah, SAS is a good alternative at this point.

 

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