Anybody with Hotchkis caster/camber plated(pic)
 

Anybody that has a Hotchkis caster/camber assembly please tell me how these pieces go together. The two rubber bushings go into the center assembly but I don't see how the shock shaft will go solid. The factory piece has a long sleeve that goes all the way through the factory rubber bushing and the nut bolts it together solid. This assembly has a short sleeve that seems too short. The big bushing with the black washer doesn't seem to fit anywhere. It looks like I am missing something.

http://www.fbody.com/members/LarryS/Hotchkis.JPG

Easy as pie

I'll identify the parts going clockwise

1. (the large yellow thing with a black ring): thats the bumpstop for the strut and the ring is the attatching point for the bellows that covers the strut shaft.

2. (the aluminum thing with the sliding thingy): thats the caster/camber plate

3. (L shaped bracket with 3 studs): thats the attatching bracket

4. Washer and spacer

5 innner and outer bushings.

The bumpstop with retianing ring goes on the strut shaft, it prevents the strut from botoming out and going bad.

The caster camber plate sits on the strut tower and locates the top of the strut.

The L bracket goes on the underside of the the strut tower and it locates the caster/camber plate

The bushings go into the black portion of the caster/camber plate. notice how each bushing has a small lip, these point toward each other when placed in the caster/camber plate. (be sure and lube them up so they dont bind), the bushings actually become the pivot point of the top of the strut.

the washer goes on the bottom of th lower black bushing and spacer goes under the washer with another washer below that.

If you live in Va near Newport News or Glouscter, e-mail me at ebontrio@yahoo.com and I'll be glad to give you a hand. plus I have some space parts for the Hotchkiss setup

MiracleMax,

Thanks a lot!

Sorry but I live in the Houston area.