[Peter D]

Dave, my trailing arms come very close to the angled chassis - 1mm on one side & 3mm on the other. Are you using the standard DRB-recommended AVO shocks like me ?

Dave B's suggestion of moving the uprights slightly outboard is a good one (if you have sufficient thread in the a-arms & top link). This might get you out of trouble with the trailing arms, & should also help a bit with the uni binding problem.

BUT, do be careful to check that you don't end up extending the drive-shafts too far. If this happens, I reckon that you then have 2 choices :

- get a few mm of the "male" splines machined off as I did to allow the shafts to extend a bit further

- make up some spacers to put between the g'box flanges & the drive-shaft flanges

I suspect that either of these solutions would exacerbate the uni-joint binding by allowing the suspension to drop that little bit further, so I would look to fixing the trailing arm problem first, then the uni-joint problem.

An alternative thought : perhaps all of the problems could be fixed in one hit by getting a shock-absorber expert to pull the shocks apart & shorten the travel at the full-droop end ? It might even be cheaper to just replace the shocks with ones that have an adjustable lower bump-stop ?
(I am guessing here, but I am sure that I have read about shocks that fully adjustable, both in terms of damping rates & bump stops).

Good luck mate,

Kind Regards,

Peter D.