Adjustable strut rods - durability for street use

Oldmanmopar said
Buy new 5 point seat belt harnesses with your purchase. Make sure your collapsible steering column is in place. Other then that you should be good to go. They are real pretty to look at though. I was thinking of painting my factory set gold. Keeping my wheels turned when parked so I can look at them and gloat over how pretty they look.

I have a set of adjustables here I pulled from a customers car. I use them to knock bearing races out . They mushroom over nice and protect your hand from the nammer The threaded end is nice to install a flat taper head allen so I can replace the edge to grab the race better. They are a nice rebuildable tool I'll have a long time. Great investment for a shop.

And how many actual street miles have you used adjustable strut rods for? Zero?

Because I know the set you put on that hacked up drag race only K you copied from someone else has never sent any street or strip time, per your very own posts.

Just let it go man. You don’t have to use them. You clearly haven’t used them, since you keep posting things about them that simply aren’t true.

Professor Fate said
Not directly answering your question, but before you invest in adjustable strut rods, be honest with yourself about your front end shop's abilities- most have no clue how to adjust a Chrysler t-bar suspension to begin with, and once you throw adjustable strut rods into the mix, they're totally lost. You're throwing another step into a process that they already don't understand.
So, unless you do your own alignments or have total faith in your shop, you may not get the full benefit from your investment.

This is a very valid point. Most big chain alignment shops will not do the set up to install or tune adjustable strut rods to the proper length. You’ll need a race based alignment shop or one that does custom work. Or be willing to do it yourself. At the very least you should be willing to become familiar with how to do the install and tuning, because you will need to be knowledgeable about the process to make sure it was done properly.

They’re like any high performance aftermarket part- they can improve the performance and function of your car when used properly, but if they’re not used properly they can create issues. The factory stuff is low tech and leaves a lot of performance on the table, but it only installs one way so any moron can install them and there’s no adjustment to mess up. There’s also no adjustment to optimize your suspension. It’s like anything else, if you add a turbo to your engine you can make more horsepower and be more efficient. But if you just slap it on there you might puke your pistons all over the road.