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Subject: Longer shackles
From: dfullam@albany.net (Dianne Fullam)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 01:01:26 -0500 (EST)
Hi all,

One thing to look out for with longer shackles: the rear U-joint may hit the
top of the driveshaft tunnel at full bump travel.  This happened on my TR4
on a road trip.  There was two of us and all our stuff in the car, but it
has the stock shackles.  We jounced over a railroad crossing hard enough to
compress the rubber axle bumpers and tap the U-joint on the tunnel.

The car is an autocrosser, with front & rear Addco swaybars in urethane
bushings. (Among other things...)

Cheers,

Pete Fullam
CT19207L
Dianne Boggess Fullam
E-mail: dfullam@albany.net


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