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Originally Posted by ibrown50
In my (limited) experience of assembling control arms with screw in bushes the bushes stop tightening when they bottom out.
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This is usually when they reach the control arm. If they have bottomed out before that then they have bottomed out on the shaft, meaning your shafts are too long (and the suspension will bind as the bushes are in contact with the shafts).
If you remove the shaft, run the bushes all the way onto the shaft and then measure the distance between the bushes this should be less than the width of the control arm (meaning the bushes will tighten until the hit the control arm), if it's greater the shafts are too long.
They do take quite a bit of tightening, the torque settings are over 100 ft/lbs, so they might just need a little more "grunt" |
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Originally Posted by clemdaddy
agree, sometimes it takes an extension or a breaker bar.
really cool tool box, looking forward to its finish… and don't deny it, you're a detail freak alright. we've been looking over your shoulder enough to prove that.
keep after it buddy, one quest after another.
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Originally Posted by Ta2Don
I agree with Ian and Clem... 
Keep after it mate, you'll kick it in the backside...  |
Thanks guys, seems your advice was correct Clem.
Lower Control Arm Crisis seems to at last have been sorted out.
Mate Martin came around today to pick up some bits and also to help me go through what I had done assembling this bloody thing.
Seems everything was right, except as Clem Johnson of
www.tubatrucks.com said, I may have needed to put a bit more muscle I to it. So when Martin was here, we checked all sorts including how deep the nuts had gone in etc.
So more tightening and suddenly things were all good.