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Is it possibe to lower the banana arm without upsetting alignment settings
I'm replacing my rear trailing arm bushings while I have the engine out. I got the bolts to the trailing arms removed but it does not look like the end is going to come out of it's bracket (at least not easily).
I was hoping that I could do this without separating the trailing arm from the spring plates. Does anyone have any advice. I've searched the forums, YouTube, Elephant Racing site for some instructions but I can't find any. Obviously, I will be taking the car in for alignment when I am done but I was hoping to minimize the disassembly. I do have Sway-Away adjustable swing arms and I've heard that this helps for indexing the torsion bars but I really have no idea how that works. Thanks in advance for any tips! |
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On the brighter side, I need to drill some larger holes up front for the new tunnel fuel lines and I need to disconnect the brake line up there as it is in the way. I guess now I won't feel so bad as I will be bleeding the brakes anyway. |
When i did this job, I loosened everything except the toe-in eccentric. The bolt head just rides in the slot in the trailing arm, so you don't really need to remove it to separate the spring plate. When I reassembled the trailing arm and spring plate, they went back together in pretty much the same place as before. It was so close that my alignment guy said I hardly needed to have it aligned.
My case could just be a fluke, though. |
I actually replaced my torsion bars without upsetting my alignment settings. I used a scribe to mark around the end of the torsion arm on the banana. After I had it all back together I went to re-align and found that it was still perfect.
You definitely want to have it re-aligned or at least checked, but marking it will get you close. |
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