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Re: 100 BN1 Front Suspension Misalignment

To: "Mark and Kathy" <mgtrcars@galaxyinternet.net>,
Subject: Re: 100 BN1 Front Suspension Misalignment
From: "Keith Pennell" <pennell@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 23:40:57 -0400
Josef,

I agree with most all of the other replies on this.  Recently finished the
resto of a BJ7 with a friend and he had the same problem as you describe.
This car had been hit pretty hard on the right front.  The distance on the
left from axle to axle was 5/8 shorter than the distance on the right.  As a
result of this the diagonal measurements were not the same either.

The entire right front clip from firewall around to front left main rail was
replaced as a unit.  Done by a local guy who apparently did not take careful
measurments.   The bad alighment was not discovered until the chassis had
been painted, the body parts refitted, and the entire car painted!  Took
some cutting and repositioning of the lower wishbone attachments and top
plate on the shock tower to remedy the problem.

As someone else said you need to have this taken care of before you proceed
any further!

Keith Pennell


> This could have been done by past frame repair where certain strategic
parts
> were replaced but strict alignment of the frame was not carried out before
> the rewelding.   But if this were the case other body parts would have
been
> misaligned  and adjusted accordingly too.     Any indication of other
panels
> being different from one side to the other?
>
> That seems like a rather large difference for the factory to just pass
over,
> IMO.
>
> The cross section measurements should tell you a lot.
>
> Mark




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