Am I missing something on the suspension

[Hemi Rebel]

Did the arms come with the ball joints installed? And if not, is it possible to screw the ball joint in from the other side? My main concern is the arm hitting the frame before bumper. If it were me i would take the right arm off, turn it upside down so the ball joint is pointing up, and put it on the left. See how it sits against the bumper. Where its at right now, that arm is gonna smack the frame hard when you drive over bumps or potholes or even going hard enough into turns.

 

[Hemirunner]

Once the full weight of the vehicle is loading the suspension, that arm and frame are going to be nowhere close to each other. The arms being upside down and possibly on the wrong sides is the big issue. Look at the angle of the ball joint to the spindle. That's dangerous. Get the arms on right.

 

[wrivord]

Did the arms come with the ball joints installed? And if not, is it possible to screw the ball joint in from the other side? My main concern is the arm hitting the frame before bumper. If it were me i would take the right arm off, turn it upside down so the ball joint is pointing up, and put it on the left. See how it sits against the bumper. Where its at right now, that arm is gonna smack the frame hard when you drive over bumps or potholes or even going hard enough into turns.

When I bought the A arms, they did not have the ball joints or bushings installed, I had someone install them from my PST front end kit.

 

[fatecaptured]

Here's a pick I copied from "B-Body Performance Upgrades" by Andy Finkbeiner this is a firmfeel control arm but still should fit like this one, i'm gonna join the crowd and say the control arms are upside down. Hope you can sort this out, nice looking car man.

 

[fatecaptured]

This one looks just like yours. Found this picture in a different section. See how the slight bend in the middle of the arm is pointed down and the ball joint is sticking up higher than the one in your post.

 

[wrivord]

This one looks just like yours. Found this picture in a different section. See how the slight bend in the middle of the arm is pointed down and the ball joint is sticking up higher than the one in your post.

Absolutely, Thank you

 

[PST]

When I bought the A arms, they did not have the ball joints or bushings installed, I had someone install them from my PST front end kit.

All of our tubular arms come pre installed with the bushings and ball joints. The bushing is a delran style. From your picture the right and left look mixed up. Do you have your torsion bars installed yet? If so what size bars are you running and are they clocked correctly? You really need to get some wheels on the car and get the weight of the car on it. If you are still having issue please call Mike (Customer Service Rep) 1-800-247-2288 his extension is 360

Thanks
James From
PST Marketing
1-800-247-2288
Ext 316

 

[Jim Bob The Dancing Bear]

It looks like you have sway away torsion bars based on one pic where they look an orangeish red. I would put the wheels on, set it on the ground and adjust ride height. Then see what the ball joints look like. It would suck to take everything apart to find out you just needed to do some more adjusting and have to put it back the way it was.

 

[benno440]

they are the wrong control arms i have ones on my 68 b body and they taper/curve to the front where as these look straight, i will post a pic, also you asked if something is missing it looks like your shockie is missing

 

[68 Sport Satellite]

Hey, you're not the first to have this happen when hiring a "professional" to do the install. It happened to me with my Hotchkis UCA's. That was even worse because those have a re-positioning spacer. Once the weight of the car was on it and I drove a few miles, I heard something that sounded like it gave and when I put it back on the lift, the square tubular UCA relocating spacer had cracked in half because that side was never meant to bear the weight of the car. They had installed mine on the correct sides but upside down. Half of those shops don't ever read the install instructions even when they include good color photos, so it pays to double-check things like you're doing. Let us know when you get it sorted out.

 

[sleepar]

The arms are upside down and the upper bump stop is reversed also... remove and reinstall ball joint and upper bump stop back off the torsion bars and move the arms throughout its range...

 

[wedge69]

I would agree . Ball joint's in wrong .
Here is Qa1 tops invmine.

 

[440beep]

Here is a pic of my PST UCA on my '69 Super Bee, driver side. Like everyone else, I think they're upside down

 

[Photon440]

Well that was a 20 month bump...does anyone know if wrivord ever sorted out that problem?

 

[Cornpatch MO]

Those are upside down. Take out the cam bolts, undo the ball joint bolt, remove ball joint, flip the arms, reinstall ball joint, reinstall arms. then check again.

That is my first thought. Even if the A arm came with the joint installed, they might have put it in upside down..................................MO

 

[wrivord]

Ok, here is what I did. I went back and tried to find my receipts for the control arms, keep in mind this was 6 year build for me (it snow balled into a complete resto). I bought them off of ebay and at the time I thought they were PST A arms. I could not find any thing on them and did contact PST, which was helpful. With all that I had in the car at that point and no one I knew that was a Mopar enthusiast or expert on suspensions (seems we are a dying breed), I decided to order new control arms from PST so I knew what I was dealing with. The ones I had on the car were removed and the new ones from PST were place on the car and BOOM, issue rectified. The old A arms are on the shelf and since I did not have any problems with the new ones, I have not investigated the matter further and they are collecting dust. The BEE is almost done except for some small trim work and I look forward to the car shows this year as it is much better going to them with a car than with out. I would like to thank all those who did offer there help as it is nice for some one like me with limited experience to get answers. I suppose I will follow up this mystery when I start my 69 Satellite.

 

[BDL]

I sent you a PM, but didn't realize you had another car that will need them too... It looks to me like the ball joints were installed upside-down. Take them out, install them from the other direction and re-install the arms (flipped, of course). I think everything will be sorted out then. You may still have to figure out which one is right and left, but that shouldn't take more than a few minutes to figure out. Good luck Wrivord!


Exactly what "5.7 hemi" and "Cornpatch MO" said