Hooker 5204 Problem

abdywgn said

they are designed for the 72 and earlier linkage...studs point up. on mine, somebody previously had installed a BB pitman arm. if that helped with clearance or not, I don't remember BUT I did tale the grease zerk out and installed an allen set screw. it was flush (almost) with the bottom of the arm. otherwise, that was scrapped on the header tube. fun headers to install!

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This is 100% correct. Why Chrylser changed the orientation of the Rod ends IDK.


I've used probably 20 sets of those over the years (have a used set in the shop right now...in great shape too) and until I ran into a 73 or later chassis they always fit well.

Hooker also make the 5303 which I run on my car. Those too, were designed for the 67-72 stuff. Since I had already encountered the tie rods hitting the header tube stuff before, I did a dry fit, marked the tube, notched the tube and took another 1.875 piece of exhaust tubing I had here and flipped it over and TIG welded it in.

That made a nice little trough for clearance.

OP you can just dimple the tube for clearance.