How To Install the Best Fox Body Front Suspension

[EricTheCarGuy]

As some of you know, this is the second suspension I’ve installed on the Fairmont. From everything I can see, this one is much better than the last, lighter too. I hope you enjoy watching it’s installation.

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[James]

Regardless of the length of the studs, I don’t think the centre bore of that wheel is far enough on to the hub to engage it properly with the spacers in place.
I think you might need wheels with a different offset. Any chance the Mustang has hubs which protrude further through the brake rotor?

[EricTheCarGuy]

You’re overthinking this. In fact, check the comments to the video on YouTube. One of the Maximum Motorsports people weighed in on the wheel spacers. He feels the same way I do, they’re not an issue. His name is Kolton Sinclare.

[James]

I got a reply from the actual EricTheCarGuy on my first post. That’s pretty cool.
I’ve watched a lot of your videos here in England, enough that I went and found a browser plugin to let me disable my adblocker for your channels.

That wheel / hub interface bugged me enough to register here just so I could say
“ERIC!
YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG!”

I’m kidding.

I did read Kolton Sinclair’s comment (after you suggested it). I thought it was funny that you think I was over thinking it…
Yes it’s true that the clamping force between wheel & rotor will take the load normally, but I’d be concerned about impact from a pot hole etc.
I think it would bug me enough that I would have to find a better solution, so I thought I had to mention it on the slim chance you hadn’t realised.

Will be interesting to see how the wheel – strut clearance is after alignment.

[EricTheCarGuy]

Thanks for following up and reading Kolton’s comments. BTW I dropped the spacers off at the machinist yesterday. He’s going to make me centering rings for the spacers so that they are truly ‘hub-centric’. That should at least quiet the critics of that.

As for hitting pot holes, or any other issues, I honestly don’t feel it will be a problem. Especially after installing the longer studs.

Thanks for your input and for joining the discussion over here.

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