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Originally Posted by SCOTI
Air-Ride did something similar. When their Strong-Arms first came out the lower a-arm shock mount was the lowest part of the arm...... meaning the first thing that would contact pavement. The explanation was that when these arms were prototyped, the truck used stock spindles so there was no issue w/the mount being too low.
How many guys swap in an air suspension that aren't trying to get that sucker lowwwwwww?? One of the first & easiest ways to get low is using drop spindles. I know there's alot of guys w/older trucks that don't/won't swap to discs. But I'd being willing to bet there's more 'classic trucks' out there that do have discs & use drop spindles for lowering.
Of course, ART's arms have now been revised to correct this 'flaw'.
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Just to shed some light on this issue. When we first started building the StrongArms for the C-10's we were trying to keep it as simple as we could, thus, we retained the factory shock mount on the frame for the front kit even when using our arms. The truck we did the original fitment on did in fact have dropped spindles, but we never encountered any problems with the shock mount "hitting" the ground. This
may have been due to the wheel/tire combo on that truck.(please don't ask what that was cause I can't remember to save my ass) After some time we started getting feedback from some of our customers as to the shock mount being an issue when getting your truck as low as possible. this made us take a second look at the design, and after some consideration we decided that it would make the most sense to relocate the shock tab to the upper side of the control arm for the added clearance, then build a new shock relocating bracket to replace the factory frame stud. This allows the truck to get low without compromising the shock travel or worry about ripping the shock bracket off the arm.