Worn Frt Shock Symptom?
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Three Wheelin'
Joined: Oct 2006
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From: Tampa, FL
Please tell me that you had an alignment/ride height done after install!!
Just kidding - with HDs there should be no impact to toe or caster, but you have to hose your camber because of the eccentric on the lower shock mount. Borrowed a camber gauge and did a couple of iterations to get it close, will still need an alignment in a week or so. Without a rack the devil is that the ground isn't level, so you have to take a pre-measurement on each side with the wheels on, then get the car back together with the wheels on and the suspension settled as near to the same position as before - then shoot for the same measurements.
Ride height was relatively easy to deal with. The HDs are built so similar to the factory Boges that it was easy to find common index points so that the bottom perch was threaded at the same height as the old shocks. Each side went up almost exactly 1cm from before the install, but the shocks were very "sticky" beforehand - so hard to say why that is.
dave
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From: Valrico, Fla.
I'm not trying to push our shop or anything, but we have the best setup for alignment's that i've seen in tampa. And yes, if you change the ride height at all up or down, your toe is affected. 813-874-1911...Rick
