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<p>Thanks, Perry.</p>
<p>At the risk of going to the well too many times, how much
movement of the shock changes camber; e.g. each sixteenth of a
inch of inboard movement of the shock creates 2deg positive camber
change (just an example; I have no idea what the relation would
be)?</p>
<p>Bob</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/28/2019 5:47 PM, Perry wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Bob</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If memory serves me correctly you will not
have much trouble with the nuts. Captive is not what I would
call the nuts used to secure the shocks and shock buffer to
the top plate. There is not a cage or spot welds on the flats
of the nuts. I believe they are just resistance welded to the
bottom surface of the top plate and the nuts will part ways
with the plate fairly easily. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Before someone figured out to adjust the
camber with these plates we used to fix the stripped or
missing shock mounting nuts by inserting a ½ inch steel plate
with predrilled and threaded holes in the same location. It
was easier than cutting off the entire top plate and rewelding
it. Only had to cut the outboard edge off, insert plate and
reweld. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This was a long time ago, like 50 years.
Feeling a bit old right now! </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Perry</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in"><b>From:
</b><a href="mailto:bspidell@comcast.net"
moz-do-not-send="true">Bob Spidell</a><br>
<b>Sent: </b>Friday, June 28, 2019 8:09 PM<br>
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net"
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<b>Subject: </b>[Healeys] Front Shock Camber Plates</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I recently acquired a set of these:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tomsimport.com/category/new-parts/front-shock-plate/">https://tomsimport.com/category/new-parts/front-shock-plate/</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I'm not in immediate danger of installing
them yet, but I'm starting to </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">plan the operation. I'll cut off the outer
part of the mounts clean, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">elongate the holes, install the plates and
weld the end sections back </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">on. My question, for anyone who's
(successfully) done this--not </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">necessarily the welding part--is: How did
you remove the captive nuts </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and any remnants of the welds that held
them? It seems to me, if you </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">don't clean off the welds then then plates
won't sit flat on the </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">underside of the shock mounts, and strength
would be diminished. I have </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">no proof, but intuitively it seems these
plates would strengthen the </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">mounts, as the tension load on the four
bolts would be spread across the </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">plates--and a greater area of the
mounts--instead of just being applied </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">to the captive nuts.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bob</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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