By ERIK on Wednesday, April 25, 2001 - 06:58 pm: Edit

THE DESCRIPTION FROM THE PAGE YOU SENT ME TO NAILED IT.. BUT DON'T UNDERSTAND THE PICTURE? HOW DOES STACKING THE WASHERS SHORTEN THE ARM FROM POINT A TO B?

ERIK

By JEEPETR on Thursday, April 26, 2001 - 10:22 am: Edit

Hey ERIK,

"So, we had Keith (Fabritron) turn down another set of control arms about an inch, allowing us to experiment with shortening them."

Ben Had Fabitron machine arms an Inch Shorter than stock, then added washers to get the final length. It was only necessary to shorten the arms .375" in Ben's case, so the washers make up the difference from the One inch shorter overall, to the .375" shorter distance that was necessary to make the noise go away...

It had me scratchingmy head for a second the first time I saw it too, but reading through the explaination cleared it up. Hope this helps you out. I'm planning on a set of RockWares Bent Trailing arms when I get a chance...

Oh, one other thing you can try. You can actually remove the trailing arm to frame bushings, and turn them around (Swap sides). This will effectively shorten your Radius arms approximately half an inch. Matt ar Rockware suggested I try this to see if His bent arms would do the trick, as they are about a 1/2" shorter than stock...

~Scott T.
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