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Ed,
Nice work and congrats. You are going to be very happy with all the improvements you’ve made.
Craigo
Ed, Way to go man. I’m pretty sure that fix will hold on pride alone. Makes me proud to be along for the ride.
Ed, I just rebuilt and installed a 69 ghia beam on my car. I replaced everything, yes everything with new stock parts. I used rubber not ureathane as I wanted the softest and quietest ride. I also removed all but the main four leaves in the upper and lower beam. I did not put an adjuster on either beam and was hoping for the best. I used the oil filled stock shocks and omitted the sway bar. The bar was just restricting side to side movement too much, too stiff not enough flex. All the buggy guys seem to follow this formula, you know there isn’t much weight up front anymore. When done, the ride height was perfect I prolly just lucked out.
I researched all this in the previous write ups on suspension here as I’m sure you have. Just getting the nerve to go for it, was the tough part and you are over that already. One thing my local builder suggested was a shim for the bottom tube. it pushes the botom out a hair which somehow helps all the techy part of alignment. Plus the bonus for you is it may aid in helping solidfy that rusty hole part you discovered. Also after I finished assembly I found a really good front end alignment guy and he said the shim is a really good idea to aid in alignment. After all that the missus took the car for a drive and was completely sold on the result of the effort. And really, if she can tell it’s better and likes it………………Anyway here is a link to the shim.
http://www2.cip1.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=ACC%2DC1 0%2D4190
Thanks for the tips. I’ve been scouring the mentioned sites for quite a while and the one I’m looking for never seems to pop up. So I figured I’d give the forum a shot, you never know who may have swaped stuff out to match, unlike my dash with the mismatched stuff.
The tach in my dash came with the car. I’m trying to keep the build cost down so looking for the crusty used stuff is just fine for me. Plus because the car isn’t show worthy and has more of a vintage vibe the old stuff is fine, I really just want it all to match.
