Actually, some racers bend their arms to accomplish a change in camber and
we will rebuild theirs. Offset trunions work better, though.
Peter C
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At 06:14 PM 6/28/2004, Glen Byrns wrote:
>I was looking at a bugeye with disc brakes at the Chico show yesterday. The
>shock arm was so badly bent that I thought it must be from some other
>application. The owner told me it was the original bugeye shock and that the
>car had undergone some accident. His shop did the bending of the shock arm as
>the only way they could think of to get the suspension to line up. The other
>arm was bent exactly like the first.
>
>Looking at the front frame rails, I didn't see any serious tweaking. Is there
>some combination of parts from spridget front ends that will result in
>terrible alignment? If you drew a straight line through the two ends of the
>arm, the center of the arm was almost 1" above the line. Then he told me how
>when he sent them in to be rebuilt he had to request that HIS be sent back and
>not exchanged to keep up the screwy alignment. I know Peter C. would never
>send back a bent armed shock for liability reasons, but Apple sure did.
>
>Glen
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