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Old Mar 20, 2005 | 12:40 PM
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Does anyone know how to check the centering of your rear end? I found BMR's panhard bar installation as a small guide to go off of but there are too man in consistancies with it, especially if I am going to be doing it from the ground. I have a set of 17x11's in the rear so i will probly have to remove them to keep them from hitting the bump stops. I am going to be installing my adj. LCA's so i figured that I would ask before hand.

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Old Mar 20, 2005 | 11:05 PM
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Should be left up to an alignment shop with a "lazer" system. no pun intended.
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just take a step back and eyeball it when its on the ground

if there is no load on the suspension, the rear end is pulled over to the passenger side.



as for the adjustable LCA's , i would measure from the centers of the bolts. you can get it close by adjusting them the same and counting the threads or somthing.
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We ended up just measuring the entire wheel wel and put the center of the rear end in the center of the wel an then used a measuring tape to confirm it. Then we set the adj LCA's where one side looked about right, then we measured between the bolts with a micrometer and then made sure the other side had the same space. Worked out pretty good if you ask me.

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