Front suspension problems
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Racer
Joined: Jun 2005
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From: Jacksonville, Fl
I ended up taking my vette to a garage that only works on Corvettes. And from what he said he gets a lot of vettes in that have bent rear spindles. Which is surprising seeing how large the rear spindle is.
He ended up swapping my spindle with a spindle from a similar year vette that only had about 12K on it. And that fixed the problem. It pissed me off because of all the things that I did not check or change out was the spindle
He says its possible that the spindle had been bent for a while, because now that the damaged spindle is off the alignment is thrown way off do to the efforts to compensate for the bent spindle.
Oh well, one prob down....many more still on the list.
He ended up swapping my spindle with a spindle from a similar year vette that only had about 12K on it. And that fixed the problem. It pissed me off because of all the things that I did not check or change out was the spindle
He says its possible that the spindle had been bent for a while, because now that the damaged spindle is off the alignment is thrown way off do to the efforts to compensate for the bent spindle.
Oh well, one prob down....many more still on the list.
Pro
Joined: Apr 2005
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From: Boynton Beach, FL
I don't know if this is applicable in your case but I just lowered my 93 and when I did I could not believe how close the outer edge of the upper ball joint came to the wheel rim inner lip, about 1/8". The front geometry is such that lowereing brings the ball joint very close to the wheel. I have same priblem on both sides. FWIW. 
Larry
Larry
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From: San Pedro CA
Originally Posted by Phantom90
I ended up taking my vette to a garage that only works on Corvettes. And from what he said he gets a lot of vettes in that have bent rear spindles. Which is surprising seeing how large the rear spindle is.
He ended up swapping my spindle with a spindle from a similar year vette that only had about 12K on it. And that fixed the problem. It pissed me off because of all the things that I did not check or change out was the spindle
He says its possible that the spindle had been bent for a while, because now that the damaged spindle is off the alignment is thrown way off do to the efforts to compensate for the bent spindle.
Oh well, one prob down....many more still on the list.
He ended up swapping my spindle with a spindle from a similar year vette that only had about 12K on it. And that fixed the problem. It pissed me off because of all the things that I did not check or change out was the spindle
He says its possible that the spindle had been bent for a while, because now that the damaged spindle is off the alignment is thrown way off do to the efforts to compensate for the bent spindle.
Oh well, one prob down....many more still on the list.
The rear lateral lower control arm will tweek if used as a lock point for a roll back... and most of these morons don't know there are actual tow hooks under there.
