{"id":262,"date":"2009-12-30T19:00:42","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T19:00:42","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-01-13T22:36:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T22:36:54","slug":"f100chassismaking-space-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"Making space for Air"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the frame on its side to work on, I could get to work on the spring pockets. I put the lower A arm back on temporarily, and bolted the Shockwave front shock to it. They were too wide for the pocket, so I cut all the way round the outer edge and folded it all back until they had a decent amount of space around them. Unfortunately I found the top spring retaining ring hit the top of the shock, so I had to open that up as well to give it some clearance. I’m sure it would have been an easy job with a plasma cutter or something, but it was hard work with a grinder and a die cutter. Nobody will ever see it apart from this pic, but I still did the best I could with it.<\/p>\n

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With that done, I inflated the shock with the air line and checked I still had enough clearance. It was a bit tight in places, so I opened it up a bit further then welded all the cuts up and smoothed them off. With one final test fit and inflation I was happy it would all be OK and pulled it all back to bits again, and turned the frame over. The re-shape of the transition and the pocket on the other side took half the time as I knew what I wanted to do and that was another job done.<\/p>\n

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With the frame on its side to work on, I could get to work on the spring pockets. I put the lower A arm back on temporarily, and bolted the Shockwave front shock to it. They were too wide for the pocket, so I cut all the way round the outer edge and folded it all back until they had a decent amount of space around them. Unfortunately I found the top spring retaining ring hit the top of the shock, so I had to open that up as well to give it some clearance. I’m sure it would have been an easy job with a plasma cutter or something, but it was hard work with a grinder and a die cutter. Nobody will ever see it apart from this pic, but I still did the best I could with it.<\/p>\n

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With that done, I inflated the shock with the air line and checked I still had enough clearance. It was a bit tight in places, so I opened it up a bit further then welded all the cuts up and smoothed them off. With one final test fit and inflation I was happy it would all be OK and pulled it all back to bits again, and turned the frame over. The re-shape of the transition and the pocket on the other side took half the time as I knew what I wanted to do and that was another job done.<\/p>\n

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