A-Body Boxing Front LCA - How to

[stealth71]

I did this while I had the brakes off the car. Hopefully boxing and strapping the LCA will prevent the end of the arm ripping off. I have my swaybar flipped to gain tie rod clearance so I cut the bottom plate a little different than others. If you are running your sway bar in the factory location a hole can be drilled large enough to fit the bushing through.



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First I bent and welded a piece of 1x1/8" strap around the end of the control arm. Before anything gets disassembled check for clearance between the LCA end and rotor. With the C5 brake swap I have a lot more clearance here now.











I then cut a template from cardboard. You can see the space I left near the sway bar hole. This allows my endlinks to move forward when the control arms move down.


Then transfered the template to 1/8" plate and cut it with a jigsaw. The second one I used a hole saw to drill the radius around the sway bar bushing and it came out a little cleaner.


A little finish grinding so the bottom plate fits tightly and then weld it in.


Now just add paint.