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Old 03-16-2018, 09:44 PM
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I picked up my lower control arms this morning. I had them narrowed 1" each. We pressed the ball joint out, welded up the original bore, then bored a new hole 1" inboard of the original location, milled off the excess material along the outer edge and reinstalled the ball joint.

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I installed the upper and lower control arms and the knuckle. Everything looks pretty good. I need to check a little closer before boxing in the strut towers though. It doesn't look like I'm getting zero camber. I should have enough adjustment available to get a small amount of positive. It appears that with the lower control arm bolts pushed all the way in on the slotted holes, I am still at about 1 degree negative camber. I either need to slot the holes deeper inboard or move the upper strut towers outboard to correct this. The strut towers are in the correct positions, I checked again and they are right. I think I need to work on the slotted holes for the lower control arms. It's a minor problem but it needs to be corrected.

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