okay so i got the front 5 lug all finished up today, took a few days of working. only thing i didnt have off the bat were the 95 soft lines. had everything else. im not sure how i like the 95 calipers on the stock master cyl. and brake booster, but it stopped just fine on the way home, with allot of pedal play. i mean i can push the pedal down to about an inch and a half off the floor. when i bled them we only filled up half a water bottle with junk fluid so im probably going to bleed the hell out of them later on. do i need to do the back ones too?
now for the confusing stuff, when it was done with the steering wheel straight the passenger side was dead on looking, then the driver one was pointed way in. so today i spun the driver side tie rod out probably about 3/4 inches and its eyeball straight, it drove home fine, just with the wheel off center.
but when you look at it the driver one is cambered in, and lower ride height than the passenger side,
DRIVER:
PASSENGER:
which is cambered about perfect but has a higher ride height. im not sure if the spring ever settled down into the perch in the control arm, i cant tell with it all assembled. the camber plate on the strut towers has always been different,
DRIVER:
see how the metal thing is in the middle hole?
PASSENGER:
that ones in the far right hole.
im just going to wait to get an alignment i guess.
would it be okay to do it now with the back still a 4 lug, then do the 5 lug in the rear (ranger/aerostar axles and drums) or should i get all 4 corners 5 lugged then take it?
You can align it with the front 5-lug. The rear axle is fixed, so swapping the axles and brakes to 5-lug won't make a difference with the thrust angle.
i didnt notice it, it might have been but it looked more like the driver side to me. you see the camber plates how that passenger one is on the inside hole? think that could be it? can it be how the struts mounted to the spindle?
think it could be how i tightened the strut to the spindle? casue if the spindle was pulled out when i tightned the pass. side it would do that to the camber.
Unless the bolts were super sloppy in the spindle, i don't see how that's possible. Everything should be toleranced such so they it bolts up with no play between the strut and spindle
no i think there all fine. just trying to figure out why that passenger wheel is cambered like it is. oh well. i just got some maximum motorsports castercamber plates for 120 shipped so ill put them on and go get it aligned.