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#1 _DOMG1402_

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Posted 14 September 2012 - 06:21 AM

Can anyone please tell me if there is any difference between

LH LX and UC TORANA rear upper and lower control arms
are they shorter are they longer

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Posted 14 September 2012 - 07:11 AM

All the same

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Posted 14 September 2012 - 11:15 AM

UC upper arms ball joint is offset.
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Posted 14 September 2012 - 11:32 AM

No ball joints on the rear arms... ;)

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Posted 14 September 2012 - 10:01 PM

Rory is clearly talking about the fronts.

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Posted 14 September 2012 - 10:05 PM

I figured, but I think he missed the part where the question was about the rears

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Posted 14 September 2012 - 10:06 PM

All the same, same.

LX & UC.
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Posted 18 September 2012 - 08:50 AM

And just to clarify, they are trailing arms, not control arms.

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Posted 18 September 2012 - 09:18 AM

Eh? They are controls arms of the trailing kind...

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Posted 18 September 2012 - 02:16 PM

And just to clarify, they are trailing arms, not control arms.


^^^ Agree.

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Posted 18 September 2012 - 03:02 PM

LH & LX Torana Parts Catalogue

Front
Arm - Upper control
Arm - Lower control

Rear
Arm - Upper
Arm - Lower

Edited by ls2lxhatch, 18 September 2012 - 03:03 PM.


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Posted 18 September 2012 - 04:32 PM

LH & LX Torana Parts Catalogue

Front
Arm - Upper control
Arm - Lower control

Rear
Arm - Upper
Arm - Lower


LOL. That must be one of those parts book mistakes. Who the hell has arms attached to their rear end? The rears should be called legs. :stirpot:

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Posted 18 September 2012 - 05:35 PM

:)

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Posted 24 September 2012 - 07:49 AM

hey with a 9 inch what happens to the rear swaybar? does that even still fit in there?




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