8 inch swapp on a 69 1/2.

What do you do on the passengers side to stagger the shocks? The rearend bracket is the staggered on, but the body mount is not. What do I need to do to the body mount on the drivers side?

 

I have a 69.5, and you can't do it without serious surgery. You have to change the shock mount pan to get it right. I use slapper bars, and they work a lot better than just staggered shocks. The bars stop the wheel hop, staggered shocks help, but don't stop the hop. I think Caltracs or something similar would be even better.

 

Major surgery? Come on? It's a shock mount. Gotta be someone knows where to locate it at.

 

I could be wrong but wouldn't 67-69 Mustang spring plates work on a Maverick?

 

i worked on a car that had bolted a plate to the stock shock location then mounted the shock mount to the plate. it was flimsy. with just a little bit more bracing it could work very well.

 

i remember right when i did my daughters. I marked where I wanted the holes and drilled and tapped them. the plate thats there was big enough that it coved the new area. It has been awhile since ive done this, so memory could be cloudy.

 

Lower mount isn't the problem, just get the '72 plates. It is the upper mounts that are the problem.

 

You're saying the body mounts on the early cars are different? Here's a pic of my '72 and it shows the upper mounts pretty much look like "angle iron" brackets bolted or riveted to the crossmember. Yeah, one faces forward and one rearward, but even if one is offset forward from the other, couldn't you use tubular spacers and longer bolts?

 

My problem is finding the correct location of the upper mount. Does anyone know if the later Mav/Comets use the same bracket, or where the top mount should be, i.e. how for from the frame rail, and how far off center of the axle tube. I can fab something up after I know that.

 

Guess we're all missing the boat here. Sounds like you're starting from scratch or something, are you saying you have nothing for upper mounts right now? 'Cause if you had the stock stuff in place you wouldn't be asking...

 

Russ,

The earliest cars didn't have staggered shocks. He is trying to duplicate what came later.



Sorry that this pic may not help much ... but this was how mine looked originally, complete with crusty failed air shocks. Click on the pic to enlarge ... you can see a hint of the mounts past the exhaust, and the other in the distance.

Here is a tech article I did on some other shock options for our cars ....
http://mmb.maverick.to/showthread.php?t=50105

 

Jeff, I guess I'd have to see what his "early" upper mounts look like. Can't really see glaring a difference from your pic... The way the "late" cars are, it appears the shocks could be staggered - or not - by placing the shock in front or in back of the mount plate.

 

My car in the picture is a 72 like yours. I believe the early cars have both mounts placed forward like the passenger side mount on 71-up cars.

Both shocks on the early cars are ahead of the axle, right?

 

Here are some pictures of the upper shock mounts off of a 1970. Maybe this will help some.

 

so why not use the stock 70 locations with 67&up mustang shock plates and u-bolts?