joe loyzaga

Does anyone have a ny opinions about shock abbsorbers for the 'van?

I have adult children that ride with me from time to time. Each time our shocks go at the back. But now they've gone in front and I need to replace all 4. I wouldn't mind finding REALLY heavy duty ones - and ideas?

Thanks

Joe

I have 4 adult children and when they come in the van - the shocks go - then I put up with broken shock absorbers. Can anyone suggest some REALLY heavy duty replacements? perhaps should change springs while I'm there - is there any info on how to do this too???

Any advice is appreciated

Can anybody tell me whether there is such a thing as a heavy duty clutch for my 1995 manual tarago?

Thanks

Joe

But how to take out the speakers????

A good basic "howto" would be great - please?

Just to add to this thread:

I've got a 92 Tarago and I changed the sound system.

HEAD UNIT

I put a 208 Watt Sony CD/radio (head unit) in. It cost about $160.

SPEAKERS

The existing front speakers and rear speakers are 5" (I think) and these don't seem to be a standard size that retail in the shops. (The retail standards seem to be 4", 6", 6 x 9"). The originals are only 15 watts (I presume rms?) and they aren't particularly nice.

FRONT SPEAKERS

The front speakers are a split system, ie there are little tweeters on top of the dash (left and right) and the 4" woofers in the doors.

You can get 5" replacement speakers but if you go bigger the sound is heaps better. I put 170 Watt, 6", "2 way" Sony speakers in the doors (about $60). I left the tweeters in the dash connected.

To make 6" speakers fit I made a bracket out of about 5mm thick ply wood. The bracket is a simple circle with a hole in it for the speaker to slot into. Then I drilled little holes in the plastic door covers and used nice stainless bolts to attach the speaker and the bracket to the inside of the door cover, so that the head of the bolts are showing on the door cover when everything is in place.

REAR SPEAKERS

The rear speakers combine the tweeter and the 4" woofer "coaxially" (ie it has the same central axis).

I replaced this with some quality speakers from an indoor home stereo, turning it also into a split system; a tweeter and an 8" woofer. The only issue here is that car speakers tend to be 4 Ohms and home stereo speakers tend to be 8 Ohms, but they do the job quite well. I used the original frame of the 4" rear speaker to hold the new tweeter. I used the speaker cabinet from the home stereo speakers to make frames to place the 8" woofers low behind the rear seats in the side wall panelling. This frame was bolted to the steal parts of the wall of the car where there were some holes. The crossover came from the existing home stereo speakers and is attached to this bracket (crossover is the frequency controller for the two speakers in a split system). On the rear left I located the woofer behind an air vent that the Tarago has, making it now a speaker cover for the woofer. On the right I had to jig saw out a circle of the panelling and make up a new cover for the woofer and bolted it to the pannelling. I stuffed lots of cushion foam inside the pannelling around the speakers and where ever there was air pockets to improve the sound.

There you go, a new Tarago sound system with a bit of thump. If I wanted to get more volume I'd add an amp to run the rear speakers but so far I haven't felt the need and it goes pretty loud. There's plenty of bottom end from the 8" rear woofers, though they are firly high quality speakers (Electro Voice).

Cheers

Stumper