Sunday, January 15, 2012

Cressida diy front suspension

I have a 88 toyota cressida and the shocks for all 4 sides are completely dead. This car had a system called 'TEMS' toyota electro magnetic suspension. This allows you to change the car's stiffness to normal or sports from the inside of the car. This system has been long gone during the 90s. They do not manufacture or sell it anymore for the cressidas. The rear ones that say exc. Electronically controlled suspension were able to fit. As for the front, the struts were too long for the one that says exc. electronically controlled system. Ive read that supras had the same struts but no luck with that as well. I was not able to find any that is made for the cressida that would work.
The closest match to this was the 1991 sw20 mr2 "rear" struts. So i had to diy this into my cressy.
The mr2 rear struts are a tad too short and it clunks around so the extra spaces have to be filled.
I used a hose clamp to fill the top diameter.
The bottom was filled with duct tape and a rubber bushing was cut in half to fill the length.