While studying the front end of my challenge race truck. I noticed that it still has positive camber on the passenger side. It will require relocating the shock to fix. Could I move the lower mount to the upper control arm and use a shorter shock ? Or is there some rule about only mounting it to the same control arm that the spring directly pushes on?
Ive seen it done on factory cars, but don't remember what.
Hmmm, pics? I would imagine you could lengthen the lower control arms to fix without moving the shock, but I'm not looking at your truck right now.
Certainly there is no challenge rule against moving the shock, there may be if you race it also in other places.
I'm trying to remember what front end is in the truck. On Metric and Camaro stubs with fabricated upper arms we ran jacking bolts on top of the springs and moved the shocks. On some we had them pass from tje upper mount on the roll cage through the upper arm to a small bracket welded on the lower arm just inside the lower ball joint. On others we had the lower mount welded to the back of the lower control arm and the shock passed behind energy thing.
Chevy truck had the shock outside the spring - lower arm to frame.
But I am more worried why only one side has a problem, you should fix the root cause not the symptom.
bentwrench wrote: But I am more worried why only one side has a problem, you should fix the root cause not the symptom.
This.
For what it's worth, Chevettes and Fieros had the same basic suspension but Chevettes had the shock on the upper and Fiero on the lower. No real specific engineering reason why, Opel just put the shocks on top and then Pontiac moved them down for hood clearance reasons.
Root cause is circle track setup. The upper arm mounts are different from stock metric chassis. There is a spring jack bolt where the original shock mount would be. I need to measure my stock malibu. And see if the upper mounts are in the right spot.
I don't know if mounting the shock on the upper arm would over stress the ball joints.
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