My experience of this was that I only got the struts from the sunny, not the control arms etc. Problem was that the 2 bolt holes on the struts were at 80mm centres (and tapped) whereas the old ones were at 75mm centres (not tapped). So I just elongated the holes in the struts (about an hour with a file) and they went in ok using the original bolts. Like Dattomaster, I find the original master cylinder does the job.

It might just be you as everything seems fine to me.

I hope your mate has discs on his 1200 before towing a trailer. I towed a trailer once with my ute without discs and I sailed through a red light on a downhill section.

I couldn't be bothered going back to pick-a-part to get the extra bits so I tried elongating the holes in the struts. It took about an hour of filing to get them right. They went in OK and the car drives well. It does sit about 20mm higher but this is not a bad thing as I sometimes carry long lengths of timber (7.2m is my record) and the extra travel will come in handy.

I picked up some struts from a sunny which looked about right except that in trying to fit them I find the bolt holes on the bottom are at 80mm centres whereas the old ones are at 75mm centres. Should I just elongate the holes in the struts so they line up?

Thanks for everyone's help.

So there is no problem with the front sitting too high (with the struts from either a stanza or 120Y)?

I have ann almost standard B120 ute which I quite often overload to around a ton or so. Disc brakes seem like a good idea. What's the best set to use for the least amount of mucking around?