gen4 and solara trd strut brace fits gen3

[henry bui]

i just installed it. it fits. just gotta push the hood down cause the heat shield keeps it from closing. but fits. no problem. just make sure jack the car up first put it on then lower and tighten. im going to get a polaroid tomorrow and take pics. also take pics on my progress on the widebody to prove some people i am doing it. haah im so happy.
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forgot to say the improvements. it stiffer steering which is weird but i like it. and the car is much stiffer and flatter feel. best strut brace improvement of any car i have driven.
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[92CAMRYGTS]

you dont have to jack up a car to put on a strut tower brace.

[Luc]

On 2002-04-19 11:08, 92CAMRYGTS wrote:
you dont have to jack up a car to put on a strut tower brace.

Well, he said that it would &quot;free up the struts&quot; and it's considered suspension work. I'm still baffled.

Luc

[CorollaKen]

hey, now you have me thinkin'....

I noticed extra wear on the inside of my front wheels. I had an alignment done when I had the Eibachs/KYBs installed (July 2000) - but since then (July 2001) I put on a front strut bar - I put it on while the car was on the ground.

So since I hadn't jacked the front up, I would have then been holding the strut towers (pre-loading) where it sat and maybe I would have created the abnormal wear...hmmm.

Should I jack up the car now and re-install the FST ? Any suspension experts, please comment.

Thanks,


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1992 Toyota Camry 4dr Sedan
4cyl [ 2164cc 2.2L DOHC (5S-FE)]

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[EKam]

Let's NOT go too far people...

I think the statement &quot;free up the load&quot; is pretty much false. If you think about it the opposite way, it might have actually put extra loads on the mounts/bolts themselves when you try to fit the STB on while the car is jacked up.

While the car is jacked up, the chassis is actually flexing because the wheel is off the ground. Now while the STB is mounted on a position that the chassis is already flexed, I don't understand how this will prevent the already-flexing chassis from flexing.

[Flipside909 [SC³]]

Didn't you guys know...if you jack up the front end of your car, you can install your air freshener perfectly! You can do the same thing with adding blinker fluid too. try it...it really works.

[92CAMRYGTS]

i should try that flipside.. i wonder how much blinker fluid to put in...hahaha. just kidding. yea i dont understand the whole jacking up thing either. i put mine on with it in it's reguler position and it works fine.then again mine wasn't a solara bar with only one hole in it. mine used all three holes. if i jacked up my car my suspension would prob fall down. that wouldn't help any.

[Luc]

That's what I'm trying to make sense of how jacking up the car would allow the TRD strut brace, which uses 3 holes each side, to be installed without having the strut mount bolts slide downward. I think Solara OEM brace has 2 holes each side, instead of one.

Luc

[henry bui]

if you jack up the car bolts give more room and it slides right in. also dont jack it up all the way like jason gibson had said. but i tightened it when i dropped it back down. jason gibson suggested barely raising the car with the tires still resting on pavement and tightening it. as for me i didnt do that. i tightened it when i dropped it back down. it does free up the struts a little more. trust me. it wont fit right without it jacked up. it will fit in just right jacked up and no threading was stripped at all droping it back down. why would i tell you this if it doesnt benefit. if it didtn i would tell all you guys i wasted money on it and dont try it. im just trying to help you guys out is all. so just if any of you gen3 guys know a gen4 or solara ask them if you can test fit it and see. you will see the difference in what i mean.