Josef
It is not unusual to find the brackets where the inner arms of the front
suspension fix to the chassis to be slightly bent.
It is usually the rear one bent in slightly and mostly likely caused by
somebody hitting a kerb too hard.
Usually the shock tower is OK and the brackets can be checked for
alignment by passing a bar through the two holes provided in the base of
the tower for this purpose.
Unfortunately this will mean stripping the suspension out again. A bent
rear bracket can usually be corrected after heating the area from say a
large oxy-acetylene set.
All the best
>Nearly finished with the restoration of my 1954 Healey 100 BN1, I have to
>realise a misalignment of the front wishbone mounts at the chassis frames.
>Both wishbone mounts at the right side are welded to the frame and the shock
>tower about half an inch back compared to the ones on the left hand side. So
>the wheel is about 1/2 inch back and fits unsymmetrical in the wheel arch.
>There is no sign of replacement of the wishbone mounts. It looks like the
>misalignment was done at the factory at Jensen's as the right side welding and
>mounts look not at all different to the left hand side.
>Now my question: Is this "normal" tolerance and state of the art? Does anyone
>else had similar experience?
>I do not have such tolerances at my 3000 MK2.
>Josef Eckert
>Kvnigswinter
>GERMANY
>100BN1, 3000 Mk2 BT7, Sprite Mk3
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