[Shotimes] my strut saga

[Mike.Wojton@us.o-i.com]

I don't think I buggered up the mounts.  I think I would have noticed.
I'll take a look up there and see.  I bought NAPA mounts.  Mostly because
of Josh's schedule this summer.  They actually came with a little spacer
that would go between the bearing and the mount.  I didn't use them.
They would have added about 1/4".

I exaggerated when I said it was 1" higher.  Not that much.  It looks like
it did when I bought it with 225-50 tires.  Maybe a little higher. (I'm
talking fender gap here, not overall heighth, so I guess higher is a
misnomer)


Mike Wojton
Toledo, Ohio

-'95 Green MTX  3/01-1/03
   ShoShop y-pipe

-'95 White MTX
   '96 Brake Upgrade

"Avoid the clap." - Jimmy Dugan




"Ron Porter" <ronporter@prodigy.net> wrote on 07/02/2003 12:03:13 PM:

> Yes, the ATX is heavier. I recall at least a 100#s, but we haven't had 
this
> discussion in awhile.
> 
> The other thing (but I'm sure you would have seen it if you did) is that 
my
> former '95 sat really high in the front. When I pulled the stock struts, 
one
> strut mount was cockeyed on the strut. This raised the front end. The
> Koni/Eibachs then dropped the front a full inch.
> 
> Mike, I will send you a PDF file that someone posted to the list awhile 
back
> with the front spring rates. There are some H springs for the Taurus out
> there.
> 
> Ron Porter 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> Well, I got it all put back together last night.  Cut the tab off the 
old
> strut to get it out.  Opened up the split in the bolt in the pinch so it
> would pinch.  Went back together pretty slick.  Had the wife on the
> prybar so I could get it back in.
> 
> In the midst of all this, I replaced the original springs with some from
> a '93.  An ATX I believe it was.  The car now sits almost an inch higher
> in the front.  Does that make sense?  The car wasn't sagging before,
> so it's not that.  I'm hoping they'll find some glaring error on my part
> at the alignment shop, and it will at least go back to where it was 
before
> all this mess.  Is the MTX possibly that much lighter that it would do 
> this?
> 
> 
> Mike Wojton
> Toledo, Ohio
> 
> -'95 Green MTX  3/01-1/03
>    ShoShop y-pipe
> 
> -'95 White MTX
>    '96 Brake Upgrade
> 
> "Avoid the clap." - Jimmy Dugan
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