Thanks for the nice pictures; your brake lines are really neat! You are making me glad that I chose the Vega-cross-steer setup, but I would like to be constructive. If 1/8" clearance is all you need there ought to be enough threads in the dogbone to mill 1/8" off the threaded ends. This will change your geometry slightly, but not much. The disadvantage of this idea is that you may then not have enough room for a grease fitting on the upper part of the king pin? Then maybe you should consider a hairpin steering arm where you could thread the arms about 1/8" further and trim off the longer threaded ends. Speedway has the hairpin "old-style" steering arms for only about $20 so it may be worth a try. Brian's suggestion of cutting the shock mount and bending it back should work too, but maybe if you look around in a few catalogs you might find a shock with a smaller diameter? Another possibility is to grind 1/16" off the end of the steering arm, not cutting into the hole, and then milling another 1/16" off the ears of the dogbone so that you can gain your 1/8".

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder