Quote Originally Posted by rspears View Post
Steve,
Not trying to jump on you at all but two things jumped out at me from your picture. First, I agree with Pat that directly above the axle is not a good place for that fuel filter, regardless how much clearance you think you have to spare. An unexpected trip through a ditch or over a curb at speed might change a bumpy ride into an inferno - not a happy thought. Second, your shocks seem to be leaned forward a bunch! I know that someone posted a neat link about how the angles affect response, but absent that I found this little table that seems to be about right:

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In your discussion on tacking your motor mounts, do you have your engine and tranny bolted together as a unit so you can set your drive line angle and deal with all clearances at once? I would think it would be a lot easier to triangulate supports with the pieces joined, allowing you to establish not only the motor mount locations, but the tranny cross member, too, all with the chassis at ride height?
I think that discussion may have been us on the 67 to 72 truck board Roger, the `64 to 66 and actually up to the`72 GM trucks are notorious for for bad shock angles, stock height without load they are 38 degees, lower it and it drops to 42 degrees, put a load in it its worse, this all came about while I started my rear tank install. Time to move them to the out side. Steve might benefit from another shock if he relocates Monroe part number 32207 or the kyb 343144 ..these are both shorter shocks if moves them to the outside of the frame rail..sorry if I hyjacked this thread... http://www.monroe.com/assets/downloa...engthSheet.pdf
http://www.kyb.com/technical/documen...onsSecured.pdf