[mr bruce]

will the hub carrier fail? Eventually. When?, testing is being done as we speak, to determine when.Aluminum behaves very differently than steel. Look at the panic raised when they found out you don't use aluminum rod ends. Why is there a horizontal shock mounted to the upper strut? To control fore/ aft movement under acceleration/breaking, and control wheel hop. That fact tells you rite there that something is moving. The stock T-bird strut has wide bushings and a channel type design, as Ant has suggested. But ,the T-bird was designed to be a regular passenger car, not a "race car" with big sticky tyres, and big brakes, and boocoo horsepower. There was a double fatality accedent a month or so ago, was that car using the single strut type upper? Hope the investigators checked the hub carriers.