installing a body tubular upper arms

[Arillious]

hey all i installed one of the tubular controll arms... did i do it right? the small spacer is toward the front of the car and the long spacer is toward the rear of the car... i also turned the ends allll the way in and then turned them 3 turns out like the instructions says.

thanks if you can help.

[Bill_Reilly]

thats backwards - small one to the rear

[Arillious]

thanks bill what would it be like if i drove the car this way out of curiosity?

[bOb shingler]

with not enough caster the steering wouldn't self center, meaning if you move the wheel slightly when going straigh t( like changing lanes ) you have to steer it back, like you will always have to steer the car to keep it straight at all times.

[Arillious]

ahh i see thanks

[Bill_Reilly]

Well, that is the result of negative caster, although in this case, if you left the arms that way, you'd just have to screw the one end out more to get the caster set. If you flip the spacers, everything works out real nice during alignment.

[75Dart440]

Looks like your gonna need to notch the tab on the control arm mount on the frame though!!