K-frame alignment?

junkyardhero said
alright, now we're kinda getting somewhere.

pull the LCA out entirely and see if the t-bar will slide thru the mount to around the position it's supposed to be. if the bar won't slide, there's something up with the hex either on the bar or on the mount. check, clean, inspect and retest.

then do the same on the front socket of the LCA, fit it up to bar outside of the car. it should slide all the way home. if no dice then there's either a burr on the bar or in the socket, or there's too much grease and the thing is hydro'd up in there. clean inspect retest.

so, now if both are cleanly fitting the bar hex ends, and you're still having install issues then you know something is out of whack.

here's an odd question, the LCA pin didn't get pushed past the back of the bushing and into the socket area when it was installed did it?

I was planning to remove the LCA to see if there's anything obvious wrong with that socket. It's all but falling out at this point anyway.

The front end of the t-bar slides though the rear mount so we've kind of eliminated that already. I think with the LCA out the bar will pass completely through the rear socket. Will try it to be sure.

I can feel the end of the LCA socket and then the end of the pin so I think it's right but will check.

I rebuilt the suspension the year before I removed the k-frame. The torsion bar slid in and out at that point, no problem, and the car drove fine with no weirdness. This seems to have started when I removed and reinstalled the k-frame.

I will be back later with some photos of the LCA and where it mounts to the k-frame.