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Happy August All,
I got the rear in and out last week with the added brace on the backside, new adjustable lower control arms and a vent hose. I tried to use the adjustable uppers from A&C but they wouldn't fit my set up. It's amazing, I can now push the car around by myself, I have never been able to do that before evidently because I was getting that much binding in the u-joints. Before the adjustable lowers it was running a 5 deg upward angle on the front u-joint and a 7 deg downward angle on the rear u-joint, my drive shaft angle was around a 7 deg upward angle (from the transmission to the rearend) relative to the ground. Basically the u-joints were fighting each other and using a lot of engine power doing it. Now the angles are 1/2 deg downward angle on the front u-joint and 2 deg angle on the rear u-joint. My pinion angle went from approx 7-9 deg upward to about a 1/2-1 deg downward angle now. The best part is there is no more vibrations or clunking sound coming from the rearend.
If you would like to see the brace that I added to the rearend for stiffing, go to my picture gallery. Because of the shock mounts, I had to use a "Single Rib" instead of the more traditional c-channel design. I used 3/8" thick plate for this and custom fit it to the back, then about 4 hours of stiching it together and viola, boy does it look beefy in person. I would recomend all of you doing something similar to this to help strengthen your rearend from A&C. You could have it in and out in a weekend and have a much more bulletproof rear and not experience the cracking problems.
Enjoy.
John
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