Rear lateral control arm orientation?

Racerlinn · 11-17-2002, 06:50 PM

Well, I'm "half-way" thru my ES bushing install. That means I have wrenched, bent, burned, cut, pry'ed, cussed, cried, bleed, and strained the well-being of my family for the last two days and I am ready to start re-installing parts. Those front sleeves in the lower control arms are just sweet, aren't they?

I will be making the obligatory trip to the local stealership for the long rear bolts as well. We taught them a lesson...

Here's my issue (one of many):
By looking at the rear lateral control arms, I swear that they do not look symetrical. Is there a "front" face and "rear" face? Is there a "top" and "bottom" orientation. It looks to me like there is a greater offset on one side of the arm vs. the other on the ends where the bushings insert. Am I seeing things after two days of mumbling under my breath? Or are the arms side and orientation specific?

No, I'm dumb and I do not have an FSM. I also have a crappy 28.8k capable phone line at home, so my searching had been limited thus far.

Help! Please, before I kill again...

Calum · 11-17-2002, 11:18 PM

As far as I can tell they are not asymetrical, at least mine were not. I take it you've actually got them off the car? We carefully labeled mine, but after we had them out we lined 'em up and damn if they weren't all the same.

Now the trailing arm, make sure you put that back so the kink points towards the car, otherwise the wheels will rub it.

Racerlinn · 11-18-2002, 08:18 AM

Yep, they are off the car and when you set them side by side, they appear to be different. But I could also be eating too many bananas.
I was not thinking at the time and we did not label them as we had planned to. Something happens to my brain when I get air tools in my hands.