2" old Man Emu lift is installed on the wife's 2001 Montero Sport XLS 4WD. I LOVE it!
The lift came with 4 shocks, the rear shocks were about 1" longer and the front shocks were the same length, but valved differently I believe.
The Old Man Emu shocks are gas charged and offer a SIGNIFICANT improvement over the stock shocks which are not gas charged.
Our Montero Sport was horrible about bottoming out. You could CLEARLY see on the frame rails where the bump stops were contacting the frame. Come to find out this is a known problem with Mitsubishi and a "silent" tech bulletin to "fix" it was circulated. It involved adding these big foam rubber jounce bumpers (bump stops) inside of the coils. Well, it didn't work...well, it worked on the small bumps but did NOT work on "bigger" bumps. WHen I say bigger...my old Nissan ALtima would never bottom out, nor does my new 2002 Grand Cherokee Limited 4WD.
So, went to researching. Old Man Emu is the only company I know of that has a complete lift kit for the Montero Sport. Again, it consists of four shocks and two rear springs that lift it a total of 2". The rear springs are replaced with a same length, but higher spring rate coil spring. The ride is NOT stiff and is VERY comfortable, but it does NOT bottom out any more! YEAH!!
The front lift is a "torsion bar" crank that is typical to most any IFS (independant front suspension lift).
I cranked the front torsion bars to approximately gain 2" of lift in the front. The truck now sits almost completely level front to back. Stock, the front sat about .25"~.5" lower than the rear, now it sits almost level, MUCH better looking.
Overall I give it TWO THUMBS UP! At a price of only $380 it was WELL worth it! The install on a scale of 1-10 wrenches...it was a 1.75 wrench. (this rating is for a shade tree mechanic or anyone who has installed a complete lift kit before)
If you have NEVER installed a lift, I give it a 3.85 wrenches outta ten.
A 5 wrench job would be changing the spark plugs on a Montero Sport. A 10 wrench job is anything having to do with the transmission. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" />
A 1 wrench job is draining and filling the front and rear differentials.
Tools that were needed for the install were:
1 pair jack stands
1 floor jack
14mm socket
17mm socket
9/16ths socket
15/16ths socket
1/2" drive
3/8" drive
breaker bar (cheater bar) for the really stubborn bolts
Liquid Wrench/PB Blaster to help loosen the bolts
Tape measure (to see how much you have lifted/need to lift the front via torsion bars)
Adult Beverage/Cola for after and maybe once during.
Basically common hand tools. A set of metric and SAE crescent wrenches/box end wrenches are quite helpfull!
I also used an adjustable crescent wrench.
Any questions, feel free to shoot me an email.
