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Remember the lower arms are short and the torque arm is long. Two diferent arcs. The front of the torque arm has to float forward and back to prevent binding.
Aleck
stage169 wrote:But it doesn't have a bushing like the stock one. I'm guessing you are not going to leave the bolt loose at the front mount? I like Aleck's explanation.Remember the lower arms are short and the torque arm is long. Two diferent arcs. The front of the torque arm has to float forward and back to prevent binding.
Aleck
stage169 wrote:I'm slow but trainable I wondered but went the other direction thinking the slot was there so when you had the car sitting at ride height you tightened it up where it was. Sorry for the waste of time. I'm looking forward to more pictures of your car. Brian
cjbiagi wrote:You are all absolutely correct about the swing arm lengths. Something has to give a little. I installed a poly mount in the front of my arm but I am still using rubber mounts in the rear control arms, so they can give a little. If everything was solid it would be more of a problem. Mine has been like this for years, no problems or noise.
NixVegaGT wrote:That 8 3/4 looks cool under there. Is it heavy? It's got to be lighter than the 9" Ford... I kept the old fashioned rubber mount on my torque arm... Thanks for the post, Kevin.
NixVegaGT wrote:OK with a little quick research I found that the 8 3/4 is about 52 1/2" wide. I guess that's only ≈ 2 3/4" too wide about 1 1/4" per side. I suppose you could take up with rim backspacing... Is that how you did it?
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