alignment problems after 5 lug conversion?

tiptopss

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did anybody on here have any problems with alingment issues after doing a 5 lug conversion to there mustang? I am about to do the swap but read something about might needing longer a-arms, cause the fox ones are shorter, any truth to this? Also do you really need a bumpsteer kit? If I put the 95 spindles on and one half of the tire is almost off of the ground, what would a person do?
 
If your car is lowered you need caster camber plates to fix vertical alignment, your spindles didn't do that. You will definalty need an alignment after the swap, the tie rod holes are much farther out on sn95's so your front wheels will point in.

Did your wheels sit straight up and down before the swap? If so, you did something wrong like mount the struts on the wrong sides of the brackets or something like that.
 
you do not need different control arms. you will need either sn95 balljoints, or a .330" spacer on top of your spindle. the fox balljoint stud is longer then an sn95. thus, you need to take up the slack with a hardened spacer.

people sell the specific machined spacers for like $13 shipped online.
 
thanks alot guys, but this is for a 85 gt, ive been told that the k member or a-arms are .5 inches shorter than the 87 and up gt,s. If this is true, I would think my front wheels would be away out of wack, and only longer control arms would fix the prob