I gotta gauge but can you assemble a strut with out the spring? then you could see whats going on. I must admit I'm not real up on my strut cars but they shouldn't be too hard to figure out ;D

80's Camaros and Firebirds are not like a normal strut front end. They still have a conventional spring that sits in between the lower control arm and the chassis. The strut acts as the upper control are which is bolted to the spindle.

if u take and hone the bolts out for ur strut u should be able to can soomthing by doing this. and you should take to devon bloemindale from the 01 truck i heard he scales cars for like 60-75 bucks or less  not sure just heard that he does it.talk to him on friday night about it.

Built a set of scales,  an idea my father devised. Son of a goat, it works. And yes, you can take the spring out no problem and run through a caster/camber setup. I was fishing for ideas, but I'm slowly getting this thing to work right. That damn fuel pump starving out killed me Friday night. I just get that thing to work right... and no pressure ACK #$%$%&^^*&**&()&$%$#!@#

make sure its the pump before you buy a new one LOL could be a pinched line or plugged filter, No flow means no pressure!!  ;D