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I have a 1970 in my garage for some routine maintenance and I noticed the  body mounts in the front under the radiator support are about 4-5 inches thick between the frame and rad support. I thought it looked odd so i looked at my 1972. Mine are only 1 1/2-2 inches thick. The body lines up nice on the 70 but I suspect the front frame horns may be bent down. Any ideas?

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When I put mine back together recently I had to put about 4 fender washers a side on the core mounts to get everything lined up correctly. How do your fenders, extensions, hood & door lines look? Everything line up good? 

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Order a new set of bushings from inline tube and install them correctly. That’s not right. Wow. I have a name for people that do stuff like that and it’s not ‘mechanic’. 

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All others look right. I don’t want to mess with them because I’m not getting involved in trying to realign the front clip. The rad support will go down 2 inches if I replace them. He needs suspension bushings and I’m concerned if the alignment will be able to be done afterwards. I was thinking of taking it to an alignment shop first to see how far out of wack is is now before I do anything. 
 

mainly I was asking if anyone has seen the front horns bend down on these cars for some reason (collision) or another…

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I'd check the alignment first,  who knows what can happen to these cars over the years and for whatever reason they are in there like that. I assume it's a customer car brought in for service. You may want to tell them about it maybe they know why it's that way.

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  • 2 months later...

Update: Sent car for alignment. Was all good. Showed the owner the mounts and explained the issue. Told owner I wasn't getting involved with aligning the body so take it to a body shop. He was happy with that and took the car.

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On 11/7/2021 at 10:39 AM, Jason72 said:

Update: Sent car for alignment. Was all good. Showed the owner the mounts and explained the issue. Told owner I wasn't getting involved with aligning the body so take it to a body shop. He was happy with that and took the car.

Very smart of you to NOT get involved in that messy can o worms!

Customer took the car....PHEW!!

All GOOD!

Jeff 1970 SS454 Black

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