roughidle
Super Platinum Member
I need some help from the masses on this one.... I'm re-assembling a '73+ bbj disc brake front end for my '68 Cuda. I'm starting from scratch on this one since I just had a bare shell to start with. I need to know what the proper order of installing the lower control arms/strut rods and getting it all to look proper when tightened down. I started to build it on the bench last night so I could install onto the car tonight, but I'm running into a couple main issues:
-Having a hard time tightening down the control arm nut - it keeps wanting to just spin the stud in the poly bushing. How can this be held so that it wont spin to finish tightening and torque?
-When I started cranking down on the strut rod nut, it didn't seem like the control arm was pulling straight on the control arm stud. It seemed to be trying to wrench to one side. I'm using new poly bushings on the strut rods, so I don't know what that's going to do to my measurement of the threads I took when I tore it down. I had measured how much thread was showing between the end of the strut rod and the nut at the front of the K-frame prior to tearing down, but I'm thinking that the new poly bushings might F with that measurement a bit, or can I just tighten down until I get the measurement I had to start with?
- I'm not going to fully tighten anything until I get the car on the ground, but I don't want to fight it too much once it's on the car.
- How do I go about trying to achieve a close adjustment with all angles; caster, camber, toe in and out without having any baseline measurements since I didn't have the car assembled in my possesion beforehand?
- Are all my questions answered in a tech manual that I don't have?
Thanks in advance!
-Having a hard time tightening down the control arm nut - it keeps wanting to just spin the stud in the poly bushing. How can this be held so that it wont spin to finish tightening and torque?
-When I started cranking down on the strut rod nut, it didn't seem like the control arm was pulling straight on the control arm stud. It seemed to be trying to wrench to one side. I'm using new poly bushings on the strut rods, so I don't know what that's going to do to my measurement of the threads I took when I tore it down. I had measured how much thread was showing between the end of the strut rod and the nut at the front of the K-frame prior to tearing down, but I'm thinking that the new poly bushings might F with that measurement a bit, or can I just tighten down until I get the measurement I had to start with?
- I'm not going to fully tighten anything until I get the car on the ground, but I don't want to fight it too much once it's on the car.
- How do I go about trying to achieve a close adjustment with all angles; caster, camber, toe in and out without having any baseline measurements since I didn't have the car assembled in my possesion beforehand?
- Are all my questions answered in a tech manual that I don't have?
Thanks in advance!