Hi folks,
I spent the weekend working on the front suspension of my 1953 Commander project. It went mostly well... but the passenger side upper control arm outer bushing (try saying that five times fast) didn't quite close up as far as I expected. The bushing is fully seated but the gap remains.
All I can think of is that the control arm ends weren't in spec to begin with. My plan is to remove the bushing and carefully push the ears back to the expected distance with a press. Two questions:
1. Is this stupid? :-D
2. What's the proper distance between the ears?
Included are images of the driver and passenger side A arms along with some I took of the process just because I'm so happy to see this stuff finally going back together and naturally assume you want to look at it also.
Comments/ criticism welcome: This is my first Studebaker suspension and I'm quite aware that a slip up can result in disaster!
I spent the weekend working on the front suspension of my 1953 Commander project. It went mostly well... but the passenger side upper control arm outer bushing (try saying that five times fast) didn't quite close up as far as I expected. The bushing is fully seated but the gap remains.
All I can think of is that the control arm ends weren't in spec to begin with. My plan is to remove the bushing and carefully push the ears back to the expected distance with a press. Two questions:
1. Is this stupid? :-D
2. What's the proper distance between the ears?
Included are images of the driver and passenger side A arms along with some I took of the process just because I'm so happy to see this stuff finally going back together and naturally assume you want to look at it also.
Comments/ criticism welcome: This is my first Studebaker suspension and I'm quite aware that a slip up can result in disaster!
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