Upper Control Arm Cross Shafts

[1BADBET]

I used the CPP upper arm that came with the Delrin bushings the hole was just too small for my stock cross shaft to fit in it so I just chucked em in the lathe and turned down the ends. If your gonna go use the spc arms just see what bushings fit it and turn the ends to fit, your front suspension looks just like mine so it should be pretty easy if the spc stuff is close in width. If anything it's probably narrower and you can shorten your cross shafts. If your going to do the lower arms global west makes a strut rod with heims that eliminate the rubber bushing and it's threaded for adjustment too.

[CTX-SLPR]

I used the CPP upper arm that came with the Delrin bushings the hole was just too small for my stock cross shaft to fit in it so I just chucked em in the lathe and turned down the ends.

Cool, I'll have to check on the availability of parts through SPC or SC&C to see what I have to work with and if there is enough room on the stock shafts for the needed hardware.

If your gonna go use the spc arms just see what bushings fit it and turn the ends to fit, your front suspension looks just like mine so it should be pretty easy if the spc stuff is close in width. If anything it's probably narrower and you can shorten your cross shafts.

The basics of the suspension are staying the same but I'm building my own spindles and moving the wheel bearings way outboard. This lengthens the upper control from 8.5 to ~14.25in and the lower from 17.625 to ~21.625in. I would have replaced the threaded rods on whatever other applications I pilfered them from anyway.

If your going to do the lower arms global west makes a strut rod with heims that eliminate the rubber bushing and it's threaded for adjustment too.

I don't like the Global West strut rods since the heim's point of rotation pulls the front pivot point out of line with the bushing on the main arm making it bind. I'm planning on using a ball joint or spherical bearing (see this thread: https://www.pro-touring.com/threads/...ction-Rod-Help) in the stock location since I can't get ridetech's cool ball separately for the strut rod and a spherical bearing for the lower control arm.