Another way to lift a tercel......

likintercssofar · Post by **likintercssofar** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 5:12 pm

While cruising the local dumping grounds a friend and I came upon a 91-94 celica that had been dumped(?). The interior had been stripped along with all the major engine pieces. The suspension was still intact. So we took the strut assemblies thinking they might work on my tercel. Wrong. They were about 1" shorter with bigger lower mounts. I really wanted the coils from the celica strut on my tercel. So we got to thinking and measuring. We decided to cut the lower spring perch off the tercel strut, then cut the celica strut 1" above and 1" below the lower spring perch. With a little grinding.....the celica perch slid right over tercel strut. With measurements from earlier, we measured for 1" of lift and welded everything together. So not only did we get a solid inch to inch and a half lift, we got to use the higher spring rate coils from the celica. Offroad, there's no comparison. Absolutley NO bottoming out, even after jumping the car. Only took about 2-3 hours to complete. Thanks go to Mike Smith for use of his garage and welder.

ctishman · Post by **ctishman** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 9:23 pm

You will be morally remiss if you do not post pics.

likintercssofar · Post by **likintercssofar** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 11:08 pm

I've tried putting pics on here before, but I can't figure out how. Some help would be nice. We didn't take any pics during the process, but I do have some before and after.

Post by **ARCHINSTL** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 11:18 pm

Try http://www.photobucket.com.
Even I, the KluelessKomputerKlutz, was able to do it. The directions are not complicated. I resized my photos to 520x390 whatzits prior to loading them to photobucket, and that seems to be a comfortable screen size (terms?).
I'm sure there are similar places out there, but photobucket is the only one I've tried - it's simple (yaahhh!).
Tom M.
EDIT:
I copied this from the "Newbie Notes and FAQs" Sticky in "General"...
2. How do I post Pictures in a thread?
- First, you need to have your pictures available on the internet. The easiest most common way of doing this is to use a picture hosting website such as http://photobucket.com/. Once your image has been loaded on a site, simply right click on the photo you want to be displayed and select 'Properties'. In IE, this will bring up a window with info on the photo. Copy the URL following 'Address'. Then, in your new post in the forum, click the 'IMG' button. Paste the URL address of your picture into the window that is displayed and click 'OK'. Your picture should appear when you complete your new post.

likintercssofar · Post by **likintercssofar** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 8:54 pm

lets try this.........

likintercssofar · Post by **likintercssofar** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 8:56 pm

here's osme more....

http://s77.photobucket.com/albums/j41/D ... C01209.jpg

likintercssofar · Post by **likintercssofar** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 9:17 pm

likintercssofar · Post by **likintercssofar** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 9:19 pm

likintercssofar · Post by **likintercssofar** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 9:20 pm

Typrus · Post by **Typrus** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 10:59 pm

You need to do 2 things... 1) Make the pics bigger. Its hard for my 17-year-old eyes to see. 2) put multiple pictures in a SINGLE post. You don't need 3 posts for 3 pics or soon.

Gasoline Fumes · Post by **Gasoline Fumes** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 1:37 am

Yeah, you posted the thumbnails.