Adjustable strut rods making terrible sound 74 Swinger
Lca are rebuilt with stock rubber oem stuff no poly. The entire suspension is oem rubber stock stuff. Only thing not is the strut rods. The strut rods are brand new.its definitely the strut rods
Or something that the adjustable strut rods are doing to the rest of the suspension.
Steve and Rob both make good points. The strut rods don’t necessarily have to be set at exactly the same length side to side, factory tolerances and all that. But realistically they should be pretty close, and yours are definitely different. If one is the wrong length it could be causing the LCA to bind up, which could cause the noise. Or worse, that rubber bushing could be torn. All it takes is for the rubber bushing to be tightened at the wrong ride height.
When I adjust the length of my strut rods I remove the shocks and remove the torsion bar adjusting bolts and plates, that’s it, everything else fully assembled like it will go down the road. Then I cycle the suspension through it’s full range of travel, bump stop to bump stop, to check for binding and resistance. With rubber bushings you will have some resistance, since the bushing has to flex for the suspension to move. And that resistance will increase at the extreme ends of travel since you’re forcing the bushing to flex more. But it shouldn’t bind up at all.
I try to set the strut rods like everything else, so they’re neutral at ride height. So the heim is centered on the ball at ride height. Usually that tips the top of the heims to the center of the car, like negative camber. But you also have to check that the body of the heim doesn’t run out of clearance at the extreme ends of travel, because depending on your ride height and bump stops your ride height may not be perfectly in the middle of the range of travel, so you may not get to be perfectly neutral at ride height to keep it from running out of clearance at the ends.
