Adjustable Strut Rods
I know it's not something you installed, because DentalDart installed it remember? I know, you didn't bother to link it because then everyone else would see what was actually going on in that picture.
That picture can't be "a reference on how the bushing can be off the pin with the strut rod attached" Wanna know why? Because in that picture the strut rod isn't fully installed. And the lower control arm pivot isn't inserted fully in the K frame, and the pivot nut isn't torqued. Hell the torsion bars aren't installed.
It's literally a picture with the suspension only half installed. All it proves is that you can't tell the difference from a completed installation and one that's in progress.
That's too funny. Let's try some logic, since you like to use examples.
The flat earth society holds a meeting. 10,000 people show up. Does that mean the Earth is flat now? Of course not. It just means that the 10,000 mouth breathing idiots that showed up for the meeting are all wrong. Opinions can't change facts. Doesn't matter how many people believe it.
On that note, how about the logical fallacy you just committed - Argumentum ad populum. Otherwise known as the "bandwagon fallacy" if the Latin's too tough for you. Go ahead, google it. Short version is, I don't care if you and a couple other guys don't understand what you're talking about, because it doesn't change the facts. Get a hundred members and have a good laugh at my expense, doesn't change a thing. Just don't drop the hammer with a loose control arm on the way home eh?
So- you're saying that the strut rod, whose only function as a part of the suspension is to limit the fore/aft movement of the control arm- isn't what holds the control arm on the pin?
That's not common sense bud. That's flat out stupidity. Strut rods were literally designed for that purpose.
Hey check this out. Factory original bushings with over 91k miles on them. No "shear sleeve". Also, they're intact at 46 years old after 91k miles. Nothing sheared off. I have two sets, both off '74's. I never saw the set on my '71, they were so deteriorated the only thing left was the washers and the "spacer".
So, seems like the "shear sleeves" aren't necessary at all then? Since the factory made every A body from 1973-1976 without them? That's right, they stopped making them the way you think is the only right way to do it over 47 years ago.
Here's a little side by side comparison for you. The poly strut rods bushings have all the same basic components as these factory strut rod bushings from my '74 Duster.
:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:
What!!! The entire purpose of the strut rod is to locate the LCA on the pivot pin?
It can't be! It's like, it's like that's the only reason they're even on the car! Wait, who said that? The company that makes the rubber bushings Oldmanmopar likes? Can't be!!! They even said it so casually, like they expect that everyone should just understand that's an accepted fact about strut rods!
I know it's not something you installed, because DentalDart installed it remember? I know, you didn't bother to link it because then everyone else would see what was actually going on in that picture.
That picture can't be "a reference on how the bushing can be off the pin with the strut rod attached" Wanna know why? Because in that picture the strut rod isn't fully installed. And the lower control arm pivot isn't inserted fully in the K frame, and the pivot nut isn't torqued. Hell the torsion bars aren't installed.
It's literally a picture with the suspension only half installed. All it proves is that you can't tell the difference from a completed installation and one that's in progress.
That's too funny. Let's try some logic, since you like to use examples.
The flat earth society holds a meeting. 10,000 people show up. Does that mean the Earth is flat now? Of course not. It just means that the 10,000 mouth breathing idiots that showed up for the meeting are all wrong. Opinions can't change facts. Doesn't matter how many people believe it.
On that note, how about the logical fallacy you just committed - Argumentum ad populum. Otherwise known as the "bandwagon fallacy" if the Latin's too tough for you. Go ahead, google it. Short version is, I don't care if you and a couple other guys don't understand what you're talking about, because it doesn't change the facts. Get a hundred members and have a good laugh at my expense, doesn't change a thing. Just don't drop the hammer with a loose control arm on the way home eh?
So- you're saying that the strut rod, whose only function as a part of the suspension is to limit the fore/aft movement of the control arm- isn't what holds the control arm on the pin?
That's not common sense bud. That's flat out stupidity. Strut rods were literally designed for that purpose.
Hey check this out. Factory original bushings with over 91k miles on them. No "shear sleeve". Also, they're intact at 46 years old after 91k miles. Nothing sheared off. I have two sets, both off '74's. I never saw the set on my '71, they were so deteriorated the only thing left was the washers and the "spacer".
So, seems like the "shear sleeves" aren't necessary at all then? Since the factory made every A body from 1973-1976 without them? That's right, they stopped making them the way you think is the only right way to do it over 47 years ago.
Here's a little side by side comparison for you. The poly strut rods bushings have all the same basic components as these factory strut rod bushings from my '74 Duster.
:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:
What!!! The entire purpose of the strut rod is to locate the LCA on the pivot pin?
It can't be! It's like, it's like that's the only reason they're even on the car! Wait, who said that? The company that makes the rubber bushings Oldmanmopar likes? Can't be!!! They even said it so casually, like they expect that everyone should just understand that's an accepted fact about strut rods!