any one able to accurately measure

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any one able to accurately measure

Postby 1oldmf » Fri Jul 15, 2016 9:31 pm

upper control arms, for front of 77 skyhawk.
length and width.
center of bushing to center of ball joint,, and width of center of center bushing.

mine has after market a arms,

thanks!!!
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Re: any one able to accurately measure

Postby H-Parts » Sun Jul 17, 2016 10:30 pm

I have loose control arms

You want the centerline of the bushings axis to the center of the ball joint.

But the rest of it i don't understand
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Re: any one able to accurately measure

Postby 1oldmf » Tue Jul 19, 2016 11:17 am

looking for center of ball joint to center of bushing , both sides (front and back side)
going to adj heim joint style,A arm, and need accurate measurement.
also width of arm, where bushings mount
thanks
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Right Hand Upper Control Arm

Postby H-Parts » Tue Jul 19, 2016 4:14 pm

The Left Hand Arm will be symmetrical because that's the way General Motors did things at the time

You see what i measured with. The numbers presented are certainly plus or minus .010"
They are probably within .005". That's less than the thickness of 2 sheets of copy paper.

The fact that the numbers came out as even, English fractions is no surprise either because that's also the way that GM did things at the time.

Parts that were drawn up when English measurements were the standard normally remained dimensioned in English for the life of the part. When Metric started creeping in, new parts were dimensioned in MM and the old parts remained English. Which is why, for several years even into the mid 1990s, you had English and Metric fasteners on the same new cars, metric thickness piston rings on English-sized pistons, etc

Let me know if you need more


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Re: any one able to accurately measure

Postby 1oldmf » Wed Jul 20, 2016 12:28 am

thanks much!
I really appreciate your help, :th: :th: :th:
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