Rear suspension

[Neinris]

Fashionable late to the party. I too have joined the club. Lesson learned, make sure to clean out the top hole you’re mounting into. My first bolt got stuck, took me 2 hours to get it out. Easiest way to do it obviously is to lift your car, not the drive on lift of course, support the axle frame, remove shocks then springs. Remove one of the pivot mounting bolt, screw it in and out of the upper mounting hole until you’re able to screw it in flushed all the way. What I did was spray WD 40 in the hole and bolt, worked the bolt all the way until it stopped. Unscrew and remove the bolt, spray more WD40, or something similar, in the hole to push the grime/rust away, wiped the bolt clean with a rag, and keep doing it until the bolt screws in all the way, do the same on the other side. Alignment was a bit tricky, with the outside hole perfectly aligned, peek in how the inside hole is aligned. From there, put the bolt in all the way and then work on getting the inside hole aligned. In my case the bushing needed to go down and forward. I had one person helping me. He used a pry bar to help me bring the inside bushing collar down, while I push in the bolt and the rear of the axle frame to get it aligned. If I didn’t get the bolt stuck in the first place, we would have finished in under an hour.

[OneL30N]

Hello everyone, I too am very late to trying this out. Applying your previous advice and tips I was able to pull off this conversion fairly easily. I immediately felt that the car turns in much sharper while test driving. However I noticed a clanking sound driving over potholes and bumps. I went to check and my exhaust seems to literally rest on top of the axle. Tomorrow I will try to somehow raise the exhaust but I can already see myself putting the axle back to the original position. So if you’re planning to do this conversion and have an aftermarket exhaust/muffler please make sure that it sits within oem location or higher up.
I have a Blitz Nür Spec S muffler (for 1 liter engines) fitted on a 1.3 liter (European Model, 2007).
I’ll link some photos of the problem and a (shitty) comparison photo between the oem and Blitz muffler.

[Neinris]

Your aftermarket muffler is not designed for lowered Yaris', I see how shallow the bend is. My Tanabe Medallion is, it's specifically designed for lowered Yaris'. Check out this thread:

https://www.yarisworld.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=63176

And in this post, I showed how much more room I have even with the mounting position moved, I put the rear on a jack:

https://www.yarisworld.com/forums/sh...97&postcount=8

So unfortunately, if you want to keep that muffler, you'd have to switch back to the lower mounting holes.