LCA Repair

[4spdragtop]

Thanks guys, these are the kind of repairs (also tacking wheels stud) that save time and $$. Helps keep momentum up too.

 

[hemi71x]

Those LCA's of yours appear to be in really nice condition.
They're not rust pitted.
They can't be Canadian pieces, from your part of the world, can they?

 

[4spdragtop]

Yeah they are actually pretty nice. As far as I know original to the Canadian car.
By "eye" it looked slightly cockeyed at the adjuster end. My Canadian square could use a sandblasting lol.
I used Dadsbee idea of candle wax to protect the bushings. Works good!

Ouch!

Yup, no reason you can't run a bead on that and reshape it. I'd clean it up a bit first, run a couple of beads so you have more metal than you need, then file it back to the proper shape.

The adjuster must have been loose in the LCA, I wonder if it was mostly backed off and the car was riding on the bump stops? It was definitely loose to the point the adjuster wasn't loaded during suspension movement.

You might also want to check for damage elsewhere, if it did that to the LCA then you may also have issues at the pivot tubes. Less likely, but inspecting the UCA's and their mounts wouldn't be a bad idea either.

Those LCA's of yours appear to be in really nice condition.
They're not rust pitted.
They can't be Canadian pieces, from your part of the world, can they?

 

[harrisonm]

Looks really good.