[Shotimes] Operating on the strut tower

[Justin Schick]

Carl,

That is the correct piece, and what I'm adding to my 92 (while also doing new police strut mounts and LCAs). The sandwiching of everything once it's together from bottom to top goes like this: spring, bearing / mount, spacer, top of the strut tower, camber plate, and finally the nut on top.

I tried undoing the nuts and jacking the body up off the strut mount to slip the spacers in. The assembly loosened up but I did not have enough room to get the spacer in there, and all I ended up doing was FUBARing the alignment. This is what led me to pushing the gutted rolling chassis of my 66 Mustang out of my garage and into the winter elements so I can perform immediate surgery on the SHO (I'd originally planeed to hold off on the mounts and LCAs if the spacers fixed the squeaking).



Justin Schick
silver 92 SHO in KC MO
201k and counting quickly

>>> "Carl Prochilo" <gr8sho@prochilo.myserver.org> 01/08/04 11:33AM >>>
John,  What does the spacer look like?  I have a triangle shaped plate
that appears to sit on top of the bearing.  That's why I am looking for an
assembly schematic to see what's in there.
-- 
Cheers,
Carl Prochilo
1992 Ultra Red Crimson

John J. Weidenbenner said:
> As I understand the spacer fix for the noise problem, it's not necessarily
> spring wrap (or memory effect), but rather the spring/outer part of the
> bearing rubbing against the spring tower. Memory effect could be affected
> by
> this interference and also the bearing drying up or otherwise going bad..
>
> There's been a lot of Taurus' upgraded with the spacers, so they should be
> in junk yards cheaper than new.
>
> My thoughts on using washers. You only get she surface contact on the 3
> washers instead of the much larger contact patch of the spacers. The will
> concentrate the stress on the smaller washer area. I wouldn't do it for
> fear
> of cracking the strut tower mounting points.
>
> Another noise source can be from the OEM non-greaseable tie rod ends can
> go
> dry and squeek when driving slow and/or turning.
>
> John W.