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Old 06-08-2008, 01:39 PM
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I just found another pic.

This is a shot of a little fixture we made to set the proper distance on the rod ends to the control arms. As many of you who have worked on control arms with rod ends know, the rod ends have to be screwed in a certain distance for you to get the alignment reasonable close to where you want it. Otherwise, you are liable to start to align the car and chase your tail. We have even had some customer's alignment guys call us up on the phone and tell us there were NOT ENOUGH THREADS on the rod ends to align their car...

We had to tell them to screw the rod ends back in on all the control arms and start over. Sometimes you can screw yourself right into a big hole you can't get out of if you aren't careful.


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