To square-up the strutrods, I would measure the back or balljoints of both LCA's to a fixed point on the car rearward, or to the rearaxle maybe, and adjust both struts to measure the same (LCA-to-Axle) distance on both sides of the car.
Nope. The job of the strut rod is not to ensure that the wheel is in the right place. Set the strut rod length to the shortest it will go without binding the LCA. More than likely they will not be identical side to side, that’s ok. These cars are not perfectly square, there’s a tolerance there. By far, the more important part is that the LCA moves freely without binding through its range of motion.
