trailing arm shim placement
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trailing arm shim placement
seeing another trailing arm thread made me want to ask:
When installing trailing arm shims... are the entire shims supposed to be "inside" the pocket where the trailing arm mounts? The shims I put on my car were longer than the distance between the bolt and the outer pocket edge, and I was unable to get them back in behind the pocket edge competely... I put the bolt through the end with the hole rather than the slots. whats up with that?
Tim
When installing trailing arm shims... are the entire shims supposed to be "inside" the pocket where the trailing arm mounts? The shims I put on my car were longer than the distance between the bolt and the outer pocket edge, and I was unable to get them back in behind the pocket edge competely... I put the bolt through the end with the hole rather than the slots. whats up with that?
Tim
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Keep in mind, it looks like you have a 68 or 69 there. They didn't put the hole in the frame until '70 and the shims used 63-69 were double hole, no slot. This requires removing the bolts to replace the shims for an aligment- hence all the rusted bolts that were never worked on and toe adjustments never made. You can do as I did on my 69 and drill the hole in the frame and use the SS slotted shims. The area where the hole is semi- hard from the welding heat so you'll need a good bit.
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its actually a '71.... i had the TAs rebuilt and put them back in myself...just too stupid to put them in correctly though. I worked up such a lather getting the bolts cut out, i didnt pay enuf attention to how the shims came out I suppose.
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I hope you kept track of inner/outer shim stacks. Shims in trailing arm pockets set rear toe-in of your Vette, get the stacks wrong and car won't drive well at all! Time for rear alignment anyhow if you just did trailing arms.
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thats the crazy thing...before I started taking them apart.. I ran some thin wire down and around and tied them all together so I would know how many went where.. just didnt pay attention to which direction they came out...arggh
