Getting a '73 Swinger Back on the Road
At this point I was starting to be able to drive the car a bit and it was time to get it aligned. The ball joints in the upper control arms had already been replaced, which left the pivot bushings.
When I took my Slant car in for alignment at a local shop, where someone still knows how to do them by hand (in other words without a computer controlled alignment rack) he told me he wasn’t able to get enough camber. On that car I put in a set of tubular UCAs but on this one I wanted to try the offset bushings because it seemed like a more economical way of achieving the same result. I used the Moog K7103 bushings and was able to get it aligned successfully.
When the UCAs were out, I took a look in the channels and was happy to see that other than some rust on the surface, they are 100% intact
At this point I was starting to be able to drive the car a bit and it was time to get it aligned. The ball joints in the upper control arms had already been replaced, which left the pivot bushings.
When I took my Slant car in for alignment at a local shop, where someone still knows how to do them by hand (in other words without a computer controlled alignment rack) he told me he wasn’t able to get enough camber. On that car I put in a set of tubular UCAs but on this one I wanted to try the offset bushings because it seemed like a more economical way of achieving the same result. I used the Moog K7103 bushings and was able to get it aligned successfully.
When the UCAs were out, I took a look in the channels and was happy to see that other than some rust on the surface, they are 100% intact