Your car is composed of thousands of individual parts that work together to carry you down the road. Some of those components are large and well-known — for example, most people understand that the ...

On many vehicles with strut-type suspension designs, the front struts (which include the springs and shock absorbers) are mounted with bearings or bearing plates that serve as the upper pivot points ...

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Editor's Note:The material for this story was provided by Steve Smith, whose book Building the Mustang Ministock addresses the issues of the MacPherson strut suspension. Information about the complete ...