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These I built for a Cadillac Seville. The bracket looks big but the car still laid out with 13x7" wire wheels. There is no spring in the pictures but it did have 1/2 ton mini coils cut in half.
1. Side view
2. I like to make special seats for the springs so they dont twist around and squeak.
3. Top view with fitting in place.
4. This is the bracket. The set screw tightens onto the cylinder to hold it in place. I also drilled a notch in the cylinder shaft to get a better bite on it. The bracket is bolted to a doughnut that I welded to the original strut mount.
5. You can see how it pivots when the car is raised and dumped.
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