Installing coil overs, need help please!

[Smitty1]

This car came with Coilovers that were mounted terribly (long spacers, long bolts, the shocks rods end were mounted with the bolt going through the rod end north/south not east/west Etc. Etc. Etc. ) My solution to reconfiguring the Coilover mounts was to reuse the exsisting Carrea Shocks and springs and use the stock Ford Mustang Lower Shock Mount (which was removed from the rearend by the original owner for some reason). This is a reliable mount and is a simple bolt in on the 8.8 Rearend. This car has a Fox body Mustang 8.8 in it so for the upper mount I simply cut the Quad Shock mount off of the rearend, squared up the mount and welded it to the Frame...Works great !!! The last thing was to make some spacers up for the top and bottom mounts. I used the same spacers Don sells and cut them to the correct length. One thing that you dont want to forget is to add some kind of limiting strap to the Rearend. Once I had the Shock mounts figured out I went to Auto Zone and bought 2 Pick Up truck Tailgate cables to use as limiting straps. These come in many different lenghts so it is easy to get the right length for your car. The 2 I bought fit between the rearend and the frame and allowed for plenty of axle droop without over extending the shocks and/or breaking the brake line . Normally the aduster ring has a hole drilled through it and the Shock body has a groove milled into it lengthwise. This is so that you can put a Zip Tie/Cable Tie through the hole in the adjuster ring, then line up the hole with the groove and insert the Cable tie up through the groove and back to the adjuster ring. This way the adjuster ring stays where you put it. As for checking to see if the adjusters have moved or the springs have settled...after you set the ride height where you want it simply take a measurment from the top of each wheelwell arch to the ground (odviously while parked some place level) and record each measurement. Then in the future you can easily walk around the the car with a tape measure to see if the ride height has moved.