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Completing suspension list before boxing day sales. Need some help with my suspension list

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0.5 drop - no bumpsteer, no extended ball joint.
1" drop - yes to both.

putting in a big bushing or bearing in the RLCA is for precision and accuracy, which for a DD is beside the point but if 'just DD' is your metric then the stock wet-noodle suspension and 245 section tires is plenty fine too.
Ok on the bumpsteer and extended ball joints.
I am not fine with the wet noodle suspension. Especially that bouncing rear. I'll be putting in poly rlca bushings.

no. Diff = differential. IRS = IRS frame. Look at the underside of your car. There's a big-ass steel frame 5 feet wide by 3 feet long with 4 major anchor points. That's the IRS. The diff pumpkin is suspended at 4 points, 2 forward, 2 rear smack in the middle of the IRS frame. The rear bushing bolt holes is what the thin-wall collars fix.
Understood lol. I will pick those up then, seems like a good idea since I plan on keeping this car long term.


because you were supposed to keep all 4 'loose' and get the 4 corners ALIGNED before torquing stuff down.
But I didn't torque or tighten anything down out of order. I think my problem was the thread hole not being clean enough as I read afterwards some people had the same problem and cleaned the threads out with a tap and it went in without trouble after.
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Ok on the bumpsteer and extended ball joints.
I am not fine with the wet noodle suspension. Especially that bouncing rear. I'll be putting in poly rlca bushings.



Understood lol. I will pick those up then, seems like a good idea since I plan on keeping this car long term.




But I didn't torque or tighten anything down out of order. I think my problem was the thread hole not being clean enough as I read afterwards some people had the same problem and cleaned the threads out with a tap and it went in without trouble after.
Thread chaser is correct option, tap will take too much out.
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