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 Alfonso56
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| posted on May 22nd, 2016 at 08:46 PM |
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Raising Link Pin Beam!
Hi guys, looking for advice on my beam. I have a 56 ragtop with 30" beam with adjusters,drop spindles and disk brakes. Its too low, scraps a bit too
much in the driveway and rubs the headlight buckets under brakes (but looks cool!). I have moved the adjusters absolutely all the way up but doesnt
make much difference. Also handles poorly with the rear becoming a bit unstable when backing off accelerator. I put caster shims under yesterday, not
much difference. Im thinking maybe the adjusters are welded in wrong place, the grub screws are at approx 11:00-11:30 at max height with nothing left.
If I just had the 2.5" from the drop spindles alone, plus maybe just some minor reasonable adjustment from adjusters would be great. I thought that
the adjusters would probably allow a couiple of inches either way from the spindle lowering of 2.5"? Thinking I might buy a 2" narrowered beam and
start again, also maybe a lkittle height would stop the rubbing on the headlight bucket. Sorry for long post, any help much appreciated.
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| posted on May 22nd, 2016 at 09:57 PM |
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Sway-a-way or Puma adjusters should both give a good few inches of travel. Is there an adjuster on both tubes? on only one can give weird operation
and not lift lower as expected.
Normal grub screw is at 9 o'clock so unless my tired brain is wrong then 11 o'clock would raise the vehicle. Mine start at about 7.30 and go to
9-ish.
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| posted on May 23rd, 2016 at 06:06 AM |
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Get rid of the dropped spindles which gives you 2 inches better height, then fine tune the height with the adjusters.
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Alfonso56
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| posted on May 23rd, 2016 at 07:41 AM |
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Thanks guys, yes the beam does have the adjusters on both beams but does not go high enough enough. I thought the idea of drop spindles was for better
ride with longer suspension travel? If I remove the spindles will my new shocks still work?
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| posted on May 23rd, 2016 at 09:35 AM |
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Yes
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| posted on May 23rd, 2016 at 07:24 PM |
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So dropped spindles keep the ride quality of a std height beam and need no other suspension mods.
Lowered beam may require shortened shox depending on how low it sits. For how low your beam sounds it should have shortened shox but you won't know
unless you find their part number or remove them and check the compressed and extended dimensions 
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| posted on May 23rd, 2016 at 08:34 PM |
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Thanks guys really appreciate it.
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