On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 15:15:37 -0600, with neither quill nor qualm, "*"
quickly quoth:



Rex B wrote in article
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By that I meant it had good geometry. With proper bushings, good shocks
and springs, it would handle with the best of them.

You, obviously, never had to align a Vega......

Don't be silly. Everyone KNOWS you can't align a Vegamatic or a
Shovit...er, Chevette unless you know the weight of the people
who were to be the normal passengers. Alignment changed with about a
50lb load differential. (How do I know this? I was a Hunter A111
system tech for a frame & body shop for about 4 years.)


The top of the spring towers usually migrated inward toward the engine, and
one would need to chain the fenderwell down, and jack up the chassis to get
the top of the spring tower (and the upper control arm mounts) back
near-abouts into correct position where shims would work.

I built a number of spreader bars that went over the engine and connected
the tops of both spring towers. A section of one-inch threaded rod built
into the spreader bar allowed for "fine-tuning"............

Luckily, the frame men did that for me most of the time.


We always quoted a half-day's labor for Vega alignments.........

Kinda like those 6.5 hour flat-rates for tuning the early Mustang
V-8s. It started with "R&R engine..."


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