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Rear Strut Rod
Chromie:
:xThe VBP rear camber strut kit is known to undo at the lock nuts:grr.
If you are going to fit this kit it will require a roll pin to be fitted to prevent the strut from unwinding.
The "perfect" strut angle is one that is perfectly in line.
In other words it is straight from the differential to the shock mount giving you neutral position. Naturally any major suspension movement will alter the camber and the toe-in
A five link kit will keep the camber & toe-in at its set position/angle throughout the suspension travel (in theory). A five link kit requires major chassis rail rework.:luv
My recommendation is that you keep the original strut rods and fit urethane bushes to them. If an original strut rod was going to break it would have done it by now, I personally have never seen or heard of a factory strut rod actually breaking.
Hope this helps
72vet:
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Thanks for the input guy's, ended up buying the VBP strut kit.
Looking forward to fitting it when I start the body off next
year with the rest of the pieces that have been purchased
over the last year or so.
Chromie what's a roll pin look like? ;mmm
Found this site you all might be interested in
http://wiki.corvettefaq.com/index.php?title=Main_Page
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