Will do.

So just the round area of the strut tube base sitting on hedge of a concrete block, I would expect to be the same as the level next to it.

Is that the flattest surface you can find?  Your level is sitting on a plant.  The ground looks gravelly.   Looks like a fair idea but execution is iffy.

A carpenter's square would get you closer.

Edited August 23, 20186 yr by Zed Head

I'll use a carpenters square.  Its actually concrete and if you look at the top bubble its pretty level.  If you look at the area were the tube inserts, its seems consistent with the level and then just at the collar it seems to bend to the right.  I'll give it another go.

With a square on a concrete block.  The surface is perfectly level left to right.

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Did you just disassemble the one side? If it were me i would take them both off and compare them against each other. You need a point of reference ie. the other strut, since it clears.

I understand what your saying but I really think with the experience of those helping tearing in even deeper isn't something I'm interested in just yet.  There is definitely an issue with the one side and I feel  pretty confident the other side is correct based on crude camber measurements and overall clearance.  I think as suggested we are down to a fix group of culprits.  If I need to tear the other side apart I will but I would need some specific comparisons that can't be obtained while it's together to do so.

You've done it right and even if there is a little wiggle as it sits on that block, I think you can still see that the strut tube is no longer at a 90 degree angle to it's base.  

I have installation instruction photos on our website that show the relationship of the strut tube to the milled bottom surface of the hub where it bolts to the steering arm and ball joint - it's perpendicular in every case for the front strut assemblies.

You can't do this same thing with the rear strut tube, but it's angle of inclination in relation to the mounting surface of the wheel is measurable and verifiable as well. 

Edited August 23, 20186 yr by cgsheen1

Yeah, that strut is toast, it must have received quite a wack to bend it like that.

You really should pull the other side too so you can clean up both sides and paint.

Rotor backing plates too. You went this far. Why not get things looking good.

So I guess I'll post in the classified a WTB but does anyone have a source otherwise?