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" Is there any way I can push in the wheel well to provide clearance for the strut? Any thoughts?"
Nothing absulute. But I do know that the Ball Joint position (in or out) on the control arm can affect Camber — and thus (threoretically) could also affect where the alignment shop has to position the top of the strut to meet specs.
This theory is based on me once setting the BJs all the way OUT on the CAs, and failing to pass the CT front end inspection (where you drive over a test plate).
Looking at that car from 30' away, it was obviously knock-kneed — too much negative camber. So I reset the BJs all the way IN on the CAs, did nothing else (no alignment shop), and sailed thru the retest.
So, if your BJs are all the way IN (and Camber was then set to spec), maybe repositioning them all the way OUT would mean that the top end would have to move OUT to restore the Camber spec, but might also mean more inner wheel well space at the top.
The downside to this theory is that you wouldn't know if it gave you the needed space at the top till you paid for a new alignment.
And this all assumes that the alignment you just had was 100% to specs, and the car had no previous front end damage that might have affected the strut towers.
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Bruce Young,
'93 940-NA (current) — 240s (one V8) — 140s — 122s — since '63.
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