K-Member / Rack & Pinion Steering Suggestions
Someone questioned the lower control arm? They're better than MII and stronger than, at least, non-stiffened OEM LCA's.
To be clear, I'm not talking about the LCA at all. My curiosity is the mount for the LCA.
Think of it this way:
If you sink a post in the ground a couple of inches and then brace it to one side, that post is pretty stiff in the direction of the brace. If you remove the brace, you have to change the end of the post somehow if you want the same stiffness. In a pole building, they sink the post much further (when I did mine it was 36"). This creates the rigidity that is needed.
On a MII suspension, the LCA is braced by a strut rod. This is removed in most of the aftermarket suspensions and the LCA mount is widened to resist those same forces similar to how a post is sunk further into the ground on a pole building.
I assume it is enough, but it is a curiosity for me. That LCA is a great lever to exert a good amount of force on the mount.
Also, I find it funny that the Op asks for input, but when Blu gives his experience you jump on him. I haven't seen him chase anyone down and talk them out of a coil over conversion, but when people ask for input he is good enough to give his. Not sure what the problem is here unless it is just that you don't like his opinion.
And I don't see any venom in his response that he hasn't paid to have work done. Sounds like he is just acknowledging that he doesn't have any insight there. Nor do I see him looking down on anyone that does pay. Best I can tell, he doesn't care who does the work.
