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woodsman1953
AMC Apprentice Joined: Sep/16/2015 Location: Kent, Ohio Status: Offline Points: 126 |
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Posted: May/17/2017 at 7:25pm |
Hey guys need your help. Last year, had a shop, put new springs, bushings, put bushings in torque arms, and new U bolts on my 68 AMX. Everything looked and seemed fine. Forward to today, at local tire shop, purchased new tires (larger) for rear. Plus install new wheels. Near completion we noticed the tires rubbed the wheel wells. The passenger side rubs at front, drivers side rubs at the rear. Is there enough room at the area of its mount to loosen and reposition ever so slightly ? We're thinking when spring work was done, it was tightened down slightly out of kilter . Possible? woodsman1953 Thanks
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304-dude
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The axle perches have locating holes for the springs to locate with a rounded bolt head, which is to keep the stack together.
It is possible one got reversed, meaning the long end is up front is causing the odd skew. The springs have the locating bolt not perfectly centered, so maybe one is mounted 180 degrees. Or they mis measured the distance needed to locate the hole for the bolt to secure the stack for mounting and locating. |
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71 Javelin SST body
390 69 crank, 70 block & heads NASCAR SB2 rods & pistons 78 Jeep TH400 w/ 2.76 Low 50/50 Ford-AMC Suspension 79 F150 rear & 8.8 axles Ford Racing 3.25 gears & 9" /w Detroit locker |
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Mopar_guy
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That's my guess there from the description. |
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"Hemilina" My 1973, 5.7 Hemi swapped Javelin |
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woodsman1953
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Thanks guys, talked with an old school mechanic today, he also confirmed the same idea. I'll have "old school" make the repair.Thanks guys, woodsman1953
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