Brazilian Mopar

Andrev8 said
KosmicKuda, thanks a lot for your support.

Iam new on his sutff, never did a work like this. For now I want to put the back on the street. I can´t weld the K-mender at this time for good reasons $$$$. LOL.

Take a look on the rest of the part I allready have, I think the will be great to drive. My next order will be the LCA reinforce plates and a pair of Heavy Duty sleeve, booth from FFI. And that will be it for now. My next step will be four 15X8 Bassett wheels and tires. I think all this will make a good car. After a wile saving $$$ i will put weld on conecetor frames and a rear sway bar. Unfortunately i cant have any more parts... But all you guys tell me are right down for future orders.

Sorry about my ignorance, but i can´t think in inches LOL. Here I think of +5 to +6 of castes, that would be the same as you? And please, tell me how you did your tool! If you can post pics of it apart would be great for me!

Keep walking Jony Walker! I will made this thing run! And thanks to guy from FABO.

Hugs for hot season Brazil! lol!

Andre,
You are on the right track. Your car will be fine with the things you are doing. Inspect your front end components and replace any that are in bad shape. Get an alignment when you are done, and you will be fine. I fully welded my K frame because I had the welder and the time. I got a very good deal on the LCA plates at the Mopar Nationals so I used them.

If I remember correctly, I used these specs for alignment:
1.75 degrees positive caster.
-.5 degrees camber
1/16 inch toe-in (approximately 1.5mm

The Moog OFFSET upper control arm bushings allow the caster to be obtained. No chance with stock bushings.

My "tool" was nothing more than a piece of 1/2 inch-13 threaded rod (approximately 12 mm diameter) about 12 inches long (30cm).
I used nuts and washers to match the threaded rod. Other parts are a short piece of exhaust tubing and one of the large washers from the old strut rod bushings shown at the bottom of the picture. The picture shows the new bushing being pushed into the upper control arm. I think I remember using some kind of pipe fitting (not shown) to remove the old bushings. Same principle, just push in a different direction. Very low $$ :icon_smi: I will look and see if I still the pieces I used and take a picture.

Keep us posted and just ask if you have any questions.

Dennis
(Winter and snow is soon to be here)