LCA pivots

Canuck Bryan said

Are you sure about that? The manual states that everything that I have done so far should be done with the car raised on jack stands - ride height and everything else is set after the control arms, struts, etc are installed correctly and the car is sitting on the tires.

Obviously I will be retorquing everything after the first few 100 miles, but I really do not see how you could install the control arms with the car at ride height and full weight.

Click to expand...

If you are using poly bushings in the LCAs they can be tightened up with the car in the air/no engine, etc. The poly bushings allow the lower control arm to rotate on the pin. So as the car bounces up and down while driving the bushing is rotating. With the stock bushings the LCA is fixed to the pin and as the car bounces up and down the rubber in the LCA bushing flexes. So if you use the stock bushings, the car should be at ride height before tigthening the nut on the LCA pins. I prefer the stock bushings myself.

You dont have install the control arm at ride height, just wait to tighten the nut for the pin when the car is at ride height (with stock bushings). Back to the original question. Are you torsion bars all the way in with the clips in place? I will try and take a picture of mine to compare the distance.

Also, I am from Whitecourt not too far