Quote: Does the shock bushing gap look a bit better to you? I'm still kinda worried (thanks to you) about the side of the bushing nearest the cab.. I hope a heat shield and a urethane bushing will work.....
I'm glad that someone is learing from one of my mistakes. Now if I could only learn from them....
You should be okay with that much air. Will the urethane melt before the rubber breaks up? My rubber bushings never melted. They got cooked and fell off in pieces. A little wrap or light heat shield should do the trick.
It's hard to see the clearance from this angle but the driver's side had no issues at all. The passenger side was so close that when the bushing died the threaded end of the shock beat a dent into the header.
We are brothers and sisters doing time on the planet for better or worse. I'll take the better, if you don't mind. - Stu Harmon
