Lower control arm parallel to ground - alignment problems?
Correct, throw the service manual out the window regarding ride height and the alignment specs. Use the SKOSH chart for the alignment.
If you don't have offset bushings in the UCA's, you will likely need them to get your alignment where you need it to be
You will need to either cut down those bump stops or run button style bump stops. You don't have enough travel between your bump stop and your frame horn, you'll always be on the bump stops which will cause a rougher ride. You may also need to run a taller upper bump stop to keep the torsion bar adjusters loaded at full suspension extension. You're effectively recentering your range of suspension travel around your new ride height...
lowers- Energy Suspension 9.9132G Energy Suspension Bump Stops | Summit Racing
uppers- Energy Suspension 9.9136G Energy Suspension Bump Stops | Summit Racing
As others have already mentioned, you'd be better off with better shocks. RCD Bilsteins are very nice. But I'd rather run those Monroe's you've got than KYB's. I have too, run the replacement Monroe's with 1" torsion bars. Not ideal, but not terrible. KYB's are trash.
I run my Duster so that A-B is 0. I also use SPC adjustable UCA's and QA1 tubular LCA's, the latter of which adds some suspension travel because of their shorter profile height vs a stock LCA. And the bump stops I listed, although I run the upper with an additional 1/4" spacer to keep tension on my 1.12" torsion bars. You will probably find that you're at the absolute limit for ride height, unless your 1.XX bars are closer to 1.12" than they are 1.03".
Correct, throw the service manual out the window regarding ride height and the alignment specs. Use the SKOSH chart for the alignment.
If you don't have offset bushings in the UCA's, you will likely need them to get your alignment where you need it to be
You will need to either cut down those bump stops or run button style bump stops. You don't have enough travel between your bump stop and your frame horn, you'll always be on the bump stops which will cause a rougher ride. You may also need to run a taller upper bump stop to keep the torsion bar adjusters loaded at full suspension extension. You're effectively recentering your range of suspension travel around your new ride height...
lowers- Energy Suspension 9.9132G Energy Suspension Bump Stops | Summit Racing
uppers- Energy Suspension 9.9136G Energy Suspension Bump Stops | Summit Racing
As others have already mentioned, you'd be better off with better shocks. RCD Bilsteins are very nice. But I'd rather run those Monroe's you've got than KYB's. I have too, run the replacement Monroe's with 1" torsion bars. Not ideal, but not terrible. KYB's are trash.
I run my Duster so that A-B is 0. I also use SPC adjustable UCA's and QA1 tubular LCA's, the latter of which adds some suspension travel because of their shorter profile height vs a stock LCA. And the bump stops I listed, although I run the upper with an additional 1/4" spacer to keep tension on my 1.12" torsion bars. You will probably find that you're at the absolute limit for ride height, unless your 1.XX bars are closer to 1.12" than they are 1.03".