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Old 06-17-2011, 07:10 PM   #12
DICK SPADARO
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Default Re: tie rod hitting the front radius rods

A picture is worth bunch of text so I will have to be somewhat corrected. What you have is what you are going to get, later design spindle, deep drop steering arms and a hairpin steering arm on the axle, this is it, other than flipping the perches as suggested before.

The only other cure is to hunt down a pair of original 32-34 front spindles and go Richards route back to the stock parts. This idea for tie rod clearance works fine for going straight ahead but due to the deep drop and the angle that the steering arms orbit when turning, the outside position lower steering arm swing upward as they rotate thu upper turn limits. This drags the tie rod on the radius rod. Lowering the steering arm any more is asking for problems.

Richard is correct about the hairpin steering arm position also, so you will have to check the length of your drag link to see if it is still stock or a shortened version. This hair pin idea seemed to look good and they sold a bunch of these components but they weren't sold with an instruction sheet so some important information was left off regarding angles of operation.

Since you already have the spindles mounted one last ditch attempt would be to see if the hot rod straight No drop lower steering arms will work, these position the tie rod above the wishbone and they have a taper on both sides of the eye so the tie rod will come in from the top or bottom. You will have to check that the tie rod does not bottom out on the frame rail or cross member with this application.
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