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Re: bent shock arms

To: "Glen Byrns" <grbyrns@ucdavis.edu>, <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: bent shock arms
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 09:07:10 -0500
Actually, some racers bend their arms to accomplish a change in camber and 
we will rebuild theirs. Offset trunions work better, though.
         Peter C
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At 06:14 PM 6/28/2004, Glen Byrns wrote:
>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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