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Old 10-24-2016, 09:43 AM
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Next issue I ran into was that my new coil over mounts were hitting the wheel while turning and in suspension compression. Of course this wasn't going to work. I had to start over on the coilover mount. I could have bought some new arms but I already work geometry with Ron so I didn't want to chance screwing up the geometry. I had also hacked these up already so figured they were pretty worthless in terms of resale.

I went ahead and cut the mounts and entire spring bucket out. I added a cross tube and some additional 3/16 plate to make an area to mount the coil over bracket at 4.5" from the ball joint centerline. My welds certainly aren't the straightest but I'm happy with the overall results so far.

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After all this time that's really all I have to update. I'm hoping this week to finish up bother LCA's with coilover mounts and decide on final mounting of the sway bar. You can see in one of the pick I have the new sway bar arms and have drilled them for the dual mounting locations. After this I have to rebuild the hoops for the coil over upper mounts because of the change in height for the lower mount revision. Maybe that will get done next week but probably not since I'll be headed to SEMA
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