I was looking at a bugeye with disc brakes at the Chico show yesterday. The
shock arm was so badly bent that I thought it must be from some other
application. The owner told me it was the original bugeye shock and that the
car had undergone some accident. His shop did the bending of the shock arm as
the only way they could think of to get the suspension to line up. The other
arm was bent exactly like the first.
Looking at the front frame rails, I didn't see any serious tweaking. Is there
some combination of parts from spridget front ends that will result in
terrible alignment? If you drew a straight line through the two ends of the
arm, the center of the arm was almost 1" above the line. Then he told me how
when he sent them in to be rebuilt he had to request that HIS be sent back and
not exchanged to keep up the screwy alignment. I know Peter C. would never
send back a bent armed shock for liability reasons, but Apple sure did.
Glen
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