The picture didn't come through. I'm assuming the suspension is unloaded? If you stick a floor jack under a spring pan and load the suspension a little bit, does that help the geometry?
bs Sent from my iPad 3 On Apr 1, 2012, at 1:20 PM, "Norm" <[email protected]> wrote: > HELP!!! > > I dropped the heavy duty front sway bar on my '60 Spider to clean it and > surrounding parts and install new bushings. Mistake! I should have left it > in place & just installed lower bushings. > > I first tried re-installing it by attaching the ends & then trying to pry > the bar into place to get the 4 bolts through brackets into the chassis. > Really not enough room to easily get at front bolts & couldn't get brackets > far enough back onto the bar to catch threads in front cross-member. > > I have now tried to follow Service Manual steps of, "Mount brackets to > "body" and then attach ends." As you can see from the attached photo, the > bar rests on the bolt that holds the spring/shock pan to the front lower > wishbone. Bracket bolts are as loose as I can leave them. But there isn't > enough play to allow the bar to rotate to below the wishbones so I can loop > the round end of the end-bracket over the link-pins as shown by red line. > > Any ideas on how to re-assemble this without a total dismantling of the > front suspension will be greatly appreciated. > > Thank you. > > Norm > > [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/jpeg which had a name of Need to move under stud.jpg] > -- > to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi > or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected] -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
