THE COBRAMAN said:
2) How was the camino designed any differently to use them? It was just a production Chevelle/Malibu chassis with the shocks added.
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Luckily, you and I and others have learned the hard way to exert the effort in the planning/measuring phase, rather than on the mop-up phase. Personally, I learned a lot the hard way, but they were lessons well-learned.
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You know, the coolest part of this board is that the opinions get argued, but we manage to avoid the all-out flame wars that every other board I've seen have nearly weekly.
1) The II spring plate, the part the lower part of the shock attaches, is flimsey low grade stamped steel. I've bent the shock tangs with Channelocks. IIRC the lower shock mount on the Chevell was ~ 3/16 plate bent for reinforcement and welded to the axle tube.
THe upper II bracket is attached to stamped steel unitbody. The Chevells upper is mounted to a bracket on an actual frame.
It may be coincidence the Chevell was structurally equiped for air shocks. The II is not.
2) You can talk till your blue in the face (or write till fingers are nubs) on the value of planning, measuring , measuring, measuring and planning. Did I mention measuring and planning? All the words won't be heard, or read, until someone really screws the pooch.
3) Last time I truly took someone to task, someone slegde hammering their firewall to make an engine fit, I was the one put on probation. They freak out, I'm the one that gets nailed.
Something personal there moderator(s) ??
Virturally everything posted in this forum is something I have experienced. But if someones going to get a bubbley nose over critisism and go crying to a mod, to hell with it, I'll watch people make mistakes, and I'll be amused because I know better.