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If that's a 308 it looks like a custom sway bar and heim joints. If you had the standard sway bar and dog bones it looks like it would hit. Is...
Thanks Mike, you were extremely helpful as well.
Looks like John F solved our issues. Adding weight (sitting on the front) to the suspension produced the proper clearance and then adjusting the...
Side note. Can anyone tell us how many caster shims they have on the each side of the ball joints, top and bottom of the A Arms Standard appears...
Thanks for the suggestions and link to your own similar situation. Once we have everything back in the car we will give this a shot. Sounds...
We have compared our sway bar with others that work correctly and everything looks the same. Here's a photo with the sway bar in contact with the...
While writing my updates, our main technician was messing around with the shims on the A Arms and appears to have created enough clearance. He...
Bottom of the shock spring to the center of the mounting bolt is 2.5" Yes, Phoenix is our location and we usually make a couple trips a week to...
It does ride high but we don't really have anything (engine, spare tire, seats...) in the car currently.
Yes, he's our best friend.. Probably on his blocked call list now. ha ha. A Arms were tightened in a centerish position.
Part numbers are correct but we did double check several along the way, came from GT Car Parts in Phoenix. Tightened the A Arms with the car off...
Forgot to photograph with a straight line but like the other photo comparisons, it's a optical illusion. We put a level against the two A arms...
Double checked all the spacers, A Arms, Ball Joints.....today and other than definitely needing an alignment (we still have lots of work to do...
We have several suggestions of things to check on Monday (thanks for all the help) but I don't believe the issue is with incorrect sway bar links...
The old and new ball joints look pretty different... What are you referring to that makes it look reversed?
That's good... one more thing to rule out. Thnaks
Just found a better Upper Arm picture on my cell phone... [ATTACH]
I'll look, here is one the car... I think the car had the same problem before we starting worrking on it, So they might be wrong also. [ATTACH]...
It's a 1981 308 GTSI I found a few more pictures. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I could email that picture that you can zoom in on if you like... it's around 1mb.
