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Originally Posted by lakeroadster
As I understand it, GM used the "one shock in front of the axle, one shock behind the axle" to try to minimize wheel hop on leaf spring cars. That way when the axle starts to wrap you have shocks working in opposite directions.
Also worth noting, I relocated my upper shock to get the shock inclination angle back within specification. I contacted the technical department at Monroe and they stated that the shock absorber cannot be mounted more than 30 degrees off vertical. If the angle exceeds 30 degrees they may tend to have lapses in dampening.
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Thanks, it makes sence that as one would compress while the other extended would help keep the axle from hopping, I always wondered why they would off set them like that, I'm wondering if the same theory might apply to my rear brakes as one is on the leading edge of the rotor (fwd side) and the other is on the trailing (rear side) of the rotor.... but thats a completely different subject.
Good info in the angle, I'll have to keep that in mind as I mock things up today.
Thanks