Murray's 1951 Split Sunroof --->The Whore

jamracing · **Posted:** Sun Oct 21, 2012 7:09 pm

tommiebsmith wrote:

:hillbilly:

mk-Zero wrote:

Very cool car indeed. I didn't realize you had joined dLk, welcome.

Oh yea.. he was voted in to the ATXDLK by way of text message

Murray:" how do I become DLK"
Tommie:"you do three back flips and the last one you land into a hand stand"
Murray:"really"
Tommie:" Really - ask James"
Murray:"did Dan do this"
Tommie:" he did four"
Tommie:"over achiever"
Murray:"Ok"

ATXDLK is little more hardcore than Houston --just so you guys know.. :hillbilly:

That's not fair!!! Tommie made me wear a thong while i did this......Backwards... :shock:

BTW what did you do with the pictures?

murray7010 · **Posted:** Sun Oct 21, 2012 9:29 pm

You guys crack me up...

murray7010 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 05, 2013 12:24 pm

I bought these the other day and plan to put them in n thursday. They come with the metal sleeves and i wanted to see how u guys recommended installing them before i screw up the bushings. Will pounding them in place with a mallet do the trick or should i be more careful and use a vice to slowly press them in?

69vduber · **Posted:** Tue Mar 05, 2013 2:17 pm

Did they have bushings before?

murray7010 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 05, 2013 2:23 pm

69vduber wrote:

Did they have bushings before?

The red bushings were there in the ahocks as u see them. They came with metal sleeves to install.

tommiebsmith · **Posted:** Tue Mar 05, 2013 3:00 pm

I'd tend to think a Mallet and block of wood.. would get them in nice and easy. maybe two blocks of wood..
one to rest the bushing on.. and one to strike with the mallet driving the sleeve in?

did these come from AirKweld?

N8-Car · **Posted:** Tue Mar 05, 2013 3:07 pm

murray7010 wrote:

69vduber wrote:

Did they have bushings before?

The red bushings were there in the ahocks as u see them. They came with metal sleeves to install.

A little WD-40 and channel locks will slide them in nice and easy. If you use a mallet the metal sleeves will cut the bushings. Those do look like the airkewld shocks Pete sells.

murray7010 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 05, 2013 6:11 pm

tommiebsmith wrote:

I'd tend to think a Mallet and block of wood.. would get them in nice and easy. maybe two blocks of wood..
one to rest the bushing on.. and one to strike with the mallet driving the sleeve in?

did these come from AirKweld?

Yeah, they are from airkewld. I needed a custom size since my shock towers are so low. The rear towers on split pans dont arch up as high as later pans. They come right off the torsion and stop below the body. Check it out.

my car with weight on the wheels has a distance of 10.5 inches from upper to lower shock tower. These shocks have an 8-12 inch range. So hopefully they work alright.

69vduber · **Posted:** Tue Mar 05, 2013 7:22 pm

So will that give you only 1.5 of travel?

murray7010 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 05, 2013 7:36 pm

69vduber wrote:

So will that give you only 1.5 of travel?

2.5 as of now on the compressd side, which is what i was worried about. I have adjustable springplates and plan on cranking the back end up a little bit as well. trial and error til i get it figured out.

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