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Strut adjustments for 1.5" coil spacer

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Offline r3cc0s

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Strut adjustments for 1.5" coil spacer
« on: October 07, 2006, 05:20:48 PM »
Now this apparently is subjective...

Okay well this is what I intend...
It's pretty easy to install the front coils once the sway bar is out of the way and even easier to add the boondox strut extenders (bolts to the top of the strut)

2 things concern me...

The "postive camber" caused by installing the spacer

I was told... the spacer for the strut will extend it and 1.5" really won't change the angle much at all
However others have mentioned to file the top part of the top bolt on the strut to adjust the camber... problem is: "how much is enough"?

another thing... my strut doesn't extend by itself
when we were trying to bring the strut through the strut mount, we had to manually pull on it to extend it through the hole... (we figured this out through tryinig to jack up the "A-arm until we hit the bumpstop and it still wasn't fitting)
So do I have a faulty strut? or is the strut only used for dampening and not for "any" rebound?

Thanks a bunch
03' 2.0L CAMI Tracker w/ 1.5" Front Spacers, 2" Rear Spacers, 1 & 1/4" poly-rubber rear spacer w/ hose clamps, Monroe Crown Vic interceptor rear shocks,1/4" bumpstop extenders, 1.5" strut Extenders, removal of sway bar and strut bar + plenty of cutting for 245/75/16 Goodyear MTRs

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Re: Strut adjustments for 1.5" coil spacer
« Reply #1 on: October 07, 2006, 06:09:38 PM »
if your strut isn't leaking and it dampens movement fine when you bounce the front end, I wouldn't worry about it (I had to do the same thing, extend it by hand to put it back up into the strut mount)

get camber adjustment bolts, they're only $20-25.  and/or you can oval out the top strut bolt hole

you can eyeball the camber, then wait a week or two to see how the front end settles out and get an alignment.
« Last Edit: October 07, 2006, 06:11:16 PM by sapien »

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Re: Strut adjustments for 1.5" coil spacer
« Reply #2 on: October 07, 2006, 11:28:17 PM »
Ah crap,
just reading people's instructions I forgot to remove the stock isolator and put the coil spacer right underneath it instead of putting it on top

Any problems I might run into?
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Re: Strut adjustments for 1.5" coil spacer
« Reply #3 on: October 08, 2006, 09:34:28 AM »
Put the stock black i solator on top of the spring.

I posted in my how to when u take the strut out the top bold hole on the lower of the shock. Take a file and move the hole back 4-5mm and the camber will pull in at .7 in the front.

Ill find u a pic

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Re: Strut adjustments for 1.5" coil spacer
« Reply #4 on: October 08, 2006, 09:57:03 AM »
do you have to file the bottem "top" strut hole at an angle? or can I basically just grind away an oval?
03' 2.0L CAMI Tracker w/ 1.5" Front Spacers, 2" Rear Spacers, 1 & 1/4" poly-rubber rear spacer w/ hose clamps, Monroe Crown Vic interceptor rear shocks,1/4" bumpstop extenders, 1.5" strut Extenders, removal of sway bar and strut bar + plenty of cutting for 245/75/16 Goodyear MTRs