Header Clearance
12-21-2008, 07:05 PM
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Header Clearance Anyone know a good way to make a dent long tube headers while they are still in the car.
I spun out on the freeway and hit my LF wheel on a curb. This bent my tie rod and cracked my rack and pinion in half. I got a new rack from autozone and can't get it in. The steering linkage hits the headers just enough that I can't put it back together.
Can the new rack be just a little different to cause this? I am working in a apatment parking lot so I don't have a lot of tools or space. Will I have to take off the headers to make a dent in the tube that is hitting the steering?
Any help is appeciated.
I spun out on the freeway and hit my LF wheel on a curb. This bent my tie rod and cracked my rack and pinion in half. I got a new rack from autozone and can't get it in. The steering linkage hits the headers just enough that I can't put it back together.
Can the new rack be just a little different to cause this? I am working in a apatment parking lot so I don't have a lot of tools or space. Will I have to take off the headers to make a dent in the tube that is hitting the steering?
Any help is appeciated.
12-21-2008, 08:02 PM
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Why wont the new rack clear the headers? What is different from before to now? Is something else bent? Is the rack and pinion the correct one? If you didn't have to dent your header before, why would you have to dent it now?
12-21-2008, 08:23 PM
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All good questions, the only explainations are 1) the rack is wrong, 2) or the frame is bent, 3) or its some sort of jigsaw puzzle im not putting together right.
I didn't put the headers on originally, but I know they cleared before the accident.
I didn't put the headers on originally, but I know they cleared before the accident.
12-21-2008, 09:19 PM
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Depending on how hard you hit your wheel, your car might be out of whack. Go look at it from a side view from front to back. Call a couple of Autozones and ask them for the part # and see if it matches yours that you just purchased.
12-21-2008, 11:26 PM
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Yeah man, I wouldn't go bending ****. If it was on there before if should go on now. Might have the wrong part. Try to find some pics and compare the part you have
Also do what the other guy said and call around and see what part numbers they give you. You can also search for part numbers on here. There is a sticky that has all the part #'s.
Other then that I dunno man!
Also do what the other guy said and call around and see what part numbers they give you. You can also search for part numbers on here. There is a sticky that has all the part #'s.
Other then that I dunno man!
12-22-2008, 12:05 PM
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Thanks guys. A local member is going to come try and help me. I called a few places and part numbers match.
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