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Originally posted by loweredd
You were talking about steering clearance Capt.......is your a-arm hitting the steering shaft too?
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That, AND unless you flip the outer tie rods upside down, you will hit the frame horns where
fastbagged68 is talking about.
This might sound a little weird reading it, but the way I did it moved only the control arms up , only bringing the lower 1" of the bottom of the crossmember with it, where the other guys are actually moving the frame down into the crossmember. The clearance issues (other than steering rod and tie rod) are not there the way I did it. Motor mount stands don't have to be cut, they bolt right back to where they came from. Turners makes new motor mounts that bolt into the original position as factory, only the actual stand is 1.5 or 2.0 shorter in accordance to the amount of drop. If he is still doing this, there won't be any tranny issues, but you most likely will have issues with the harmonic balancer since the top of the crossmember actually moved up and the motor stayed in the same place.
In a nutshell:
Turners:
Moves complete crossmember Up into the frame with the motor staying still
Captkaos:
cuts height out of the crossmember and in design only moves the control arms up.
That make sense?
Basically we are all talking about 67-87's since they all are the same suspension. Specifically mine is a 73-87.
I do have a question about the control arms on the Turner setup though. It appears that his is moving the inside control arm mount UP into the crossmember. If that is the case then the geometry of the control arms just changed, especially if the top wasn't moved the same amount. Am I missing something here?