Aaron and I rebuilt the front suspension on his '74 Dart Sport about a year ago, when we swapped the disc brake system to it from a Duster. Until now, we have not had a reason to ask this, but now we are in the home stretch and need to start finalizing things on his project. What is the correct sequence for tightening or adjusting items, starting from scratch. What I mean is, we had the car stripped down to a bare shell. Torsion bars went back in and we just reinstalled engine and tranny last weekend. The car sat somewhat at an angle. To get it mostly leveled up, we had to tighten the torsion bar adjuster on one side considerably, but the other adjuster was barely snugged up.

Can you explain, step-by-step, how to go through the process? It seems we probably tightened the lower control arm bushing too soon.

Thanks,
Jerry

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...if you have reason to suspect that the lower control arm bushing is in a bind, simply loosen and retorque at or near ride height. There are different schools of thought on ride height adjustment. I like to set mine where I like it to get a nice slight rake compared to the rear. Whatever you do, put it where you want it before doing other alignment, a significant change in suspension height can throw off the other stuff. Park on a flat area and measure to some common point on each side. remeber, a body panel or bumper could be crooked (I'm sure yours are not! ), so a frame point is a good idea. After each go with the adjuster bolt, bounce the car on that side a few times before measuring so everything decides where it wants to be. Get both sides level (or a tad higher on the driver's side if you're a hefty mamba jamba like me) and you're set.

D/W

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Any possibility you have the LCA/t-bar "off a tooth" on one side?

I always bounce the car after adjusting, readjust, then drive around, stopping on a flat surface, then repeat until level or desired height is reached.

Lou

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Sounds like where we went wrong was torquing the LCA shafts before lowering the car to the floor to put a load on it. We'll go back to square one and try again.

Thanks much,
Jerry

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