F-Body Spindle on A-Body problem

I got a set of spindles, brakes, and calipers off from a mid 80's 5th aveish vehicle. I bought a set of new lower ball joints from rock-auto, and new grade 8, 5/8x2 1/2x18 bolts to bolt them together, and I got a set of used magnum force tubular UCA with the bigger ball joint. Eveything seemed to bolt together nicely except one issue:
I had the UCA bolted in, the F-Body spindle bolted to that, and then bolted the lower ball joint to the spindle. Then, when I went to bolt the lower control arm to the lower ball joint I had to loosen the torsion bar bolt all the way out just to get the lower control arm high enough to get the lower ball joint in. If I didn't, the car would lift up before becoming even close to merging the two. I have to take the stock Tbars out anyways for the 1"ers. But, is this common practice, or did I fudge something up here?