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Technique / Advice on Front Control Arm Installation Posted by DnstrDan [Email] (#1361) [Profile/Gallery] (more from DnstrDan) on Sun, 18 Oct 2015 23:26:17 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
Finishing up a complete, first-time front suspension refresh, I'm having difficulty remounting the control arm to the subframe. I've bolted the other end of the control arm to the new ball joint, which was installed onto the knuckle. The problem is that the aluminum housing of the rear bushing interferes with the refit. I followed the WIS procedure by aligning it with the control arm and torquing the spindle nut while the control arm was fully detached. My guess is that I got the clocking wrong: the part that fits into the subframe is coplanar with the control arm but now it won't mate unless the suspension is compressed!
I know that the control arm bolts are to be fully torqued only after the suspension is loaded at curb weight (i.e., by way of a jack underneath the ball joint). So my question is one of technique: should I loosen the spindle nut on the rear bushing and tighten it in the loaded condition when the other bushing bolts are torqued, or remove the control arm altogether, reclock the rear bushing aluminum housing and retorque it before installation?
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