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11-07-2006 04:14 PM #8
Faith: All of these guys are pretty much saying the same thing: Your front end was set up to get it as low as possible. and some things were done that reduced the clearances to a very minimal amount, so when you hit a pot hole. or rough surface, your front end is exceeding the space it needs to travel
Here is what I see from the pictures:
1) Your spring is a reversed eye spring. However, the reversed eye drops it an inch or so more than a regular eye, plus the spring seems to have been dearched somewhat, compounding the problem.
2) You have very little travel between the bottom of your spring perch u-bolts (in the center of the spring) and the top of the axle. Plus, they have put in some steel shims to take up threads, and further decreased the space between the two.
3) Your shocks may or may not be too long, and until you raise the front to an acceptable level, you won't know for sure. You generally want 2/3 of the shock for compression and 1/3 for upward travel. I have set them up at 1/2 and 1/2 and that is ok too.
4) Buy a new spring (Speedway has these, among others) and possibly get a regular vs reversed eye. Get rid of that spacer shim and get spring perch u bolts with a shorter length.
5) Once you get the car sitting at a couple of inches higher, or at least an inch higher, you can start playing with the shocks. I got my shorter lower shock mounts from Pete and Jakes years ago, and I think they still carry them. Yes, yours are too long. Sell them on Ebay.
Once you are done with all of this, get a good front end alignment (not A Pep Boys special) and make sure your caster, camber ,etc is ok.
That is all you have going on, someone wanted a low car, and got it too low.
Don





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