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Re: bent shock arms

To: "CHRIS KOTTING" <ckotting@wideopenwest.com>
Subject: Re: bent shock arms
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 09:44:57 -0700
Cc: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
References: <000e01c45d65$a3558f30$6664640a@vgl.cvg.ucdavis.edu> <5.0.2.1.2.20040629090441.0291ea00@127.0.0.1> <20040629163914.M56505@wideopenwest.com>
Chris,
I think you called it.  That is what I thought initially but I didn't get a
photo to confirm.  If that is what happened, boy did he get screwed.  I
can't believe that bending a piece of metal with so much riding on it can be
a good thing.  It can only hasten the day of reckoning.

Glen

> I think Peter hit on the answer, but indirectly.
>
> Did you look at the top trunnions?  Were they assembled so that the shock
arm
> attachment was toward the shock?  That gives the most incredible looking
> camber problems.
>
> They're supposed to be assembled so that the shock arm attachment is AWAY
> from the shock, towards the wheel.  If that's the problem, than the shop
that
> bent the arms royally screwed him over by reassembling the suspension
wrong,
> blaming the result on accident damage, and mangling the crap out of the
shock
> arms to compensate for their screw-up.
>
> Chris K.






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