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> Trailing arm alignment, rough alignment to get car to shop
Tom
post Aug 18 2011, 10:32 AM
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What do you guys think? Good enough to get the car to the alignment shop?


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post Sep 7 2012, 10:14 AM
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Well, fast forward a year and I am finally getting back to this.
First I would like to thank Eric at PMB for the excellent service and work that he provides. I had Eric do these back in 2006 with rubber bushings and new bearings and sandblast and paint. They were still looking great. but the rubber bushings had something go wrong and I had up and down movement in the arm along the shaft axis. Talked to Eric and he said send them to him and he would put the new poly bushings with zerk grease fittings for me. Free of charge!! What a guy! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
Got them back last year, but between my bad back and other things that seem to get in the way, I haven't reinstalled them.
Started yesterday and got the driver's side on. Just need to put the axle back on and tighten it up some so I can go back to my rough alignment set up. Had everything all laid out and ready and made sure all of the bolts, lock washers, tools ,etc., I needed were handy. Got to the dust shield and one schoor washer was missing. Now where did that go, it was just here! Looked and looked and could not find it. Had no more schoor wasshers so I used a flat washer and a touch of locknut to keep it from backing out. By the time I got the arm on and the brakes on, my back was in turmoil, so I stopped for the day. Putting everything up and the cover back on the car, the schoor washer fell to the floor. Now how the XXXX did that washer jump to the roof of the car? That's where I had the cover folded back out of the way.
The shaft in the arm turned by hand after greasing, tight but not too hard to turn. I guess that would be a good thing.
Today I hope to get some more done. Hope it goes better than yesterday.
Tom


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