tre5
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If you were to put a smaller cylinder more inbound on the beam, it would put a lot of stress on the bushing. My thought of using a smaller cylinder would be to build a new radius arm with a nice big and strong heim joint at a newly constructed radius arm pivot. Put the cylinder closer to that pivot. Then you could weld a 1 3/4" tube through the frame (vertically) and insert the cylinder through that. Basically it would end up being just in front of the firewall. You could run accumulators on it, and not use springs. That's how I would do it.