<VV> Front suspensions- even more

[Sethracer at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/22/2010 11:20:28 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
corvairduval at cox.net writes:

Also,  the lower arm is different because of the shock absorber mount. The
early  arm has bottom holes for the two bolts. The late arm has two opposing
holes  for one lower shock mount bolt.

Frank DuVal



Not that I have a need for it, but it should be easy enough to cobble  up a 
combination early/late front crossmember. The upper and lower ball  joint 
tapers are the same. If you had a rusted out early model, you could swap  the 
spindles and brakes over to the late A-arms and assemble the whole thing.  
The steering arms are the same bolt pattern. If installed in an early, you 
would  end up with an early-model that had late-style shocks and camber 
adjustments.  Not necessarily better, just different. You might have to use 
longer tie-rods as  well.


Seth Emerson

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