I need a new Torque Arm..

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04-15-2007, 07:55 PM

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Go with the UMI arm and crossmember with the safety loop. The crossmember with the exhaust clearing drop hoop may hit everything on the road like mine did. I swapped it to a flat one and still have a huge exhaust passing over it.

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04-15-2007, 08:13 PM

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I really like UMI's stuff. I wonder what arm to get for true duel's with an x-pipe?

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04-15-2007, 08:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Enforcerws6

From the looks of it the bolt was missing for some time and the other was loose for some time. That will teach you to rush putting something back together.j/k lol

It was in there this morning, I was under it..

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04-15-2007, 09:00 PM

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UMI all the way!! Cool guys there! Heres my set-up......
(need new pic with my adj. PHB!

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04-15-2007, 09:15 PM

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Nice, I like that Bullet right before the Tunnel Brace. That is the same thing I am getting, I already have the Panhard Bar and the LCA's with the Poly Bushings.
You have Shorty Headers?

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04-15-2007, 10:16 PM

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UMI makes a good product i got there adj panhard on my car.. but i got one of there torque arms and it doesnt fit they told me to try the other holes that dont fit either $200 piece of junk atm

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crossmember whats that ****, took that bitch off wieght reduction if anyone believes GM's theory that a torque arm can break and make the car turn end over end be my guest

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04-15-2007, 10:24 PM

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Well you might have to Hammer it in, get a little rough with it, tough love..

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04-15-2007, 10:28 PM

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Well you might have to Hammer it in, get a little rough with it, tough love..

i hear ya there but it will pull the other bolts im sure having preloaded stress on the torque arm isnt good which will make for a quicker failure of it

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04-15-2007, 10:42 PM

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No problems with the sphon extreme duty

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04-15-2007, 11:21 PM

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mine wallowed out the holes from launching...so im welding washers onto it around the holes...and im going to run some bracing down the leingth of it

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04-15-2007, 11:33 PM

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while we're on the subject of torque arms and suspension how do you determine where to set you pinion angle at with the adjustable torque arm?

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04-15-2007, 11:51 PM

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how do you pull the tranny with the ds safety loop? not familiar with that...you unbolt it from the rear end is there enough room to slide it out over the rear end? or pull it out of the tranny and slide it foroward?

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04-16-2007, 12:23 AM

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If you un-bolt the Drive Shaft from the Yoke, it slides forward, then down. Then you pull it out, comes out of the Loop no problem. I can swap a Drive Shaft in 10 min.

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04-16-2007, 06:50 AM

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I was messing around and went to back up, it wheel hopped a bit, so I stopped and started to take off. I had a friend with me so we were having a little fun, I hammered it and it went snap and I heard a little grinding, so I thought I dropped the Gears again..

I got under there and I saw this..

The Drive Shaft was rubbing on the Exhaust, and it's missing a Bolt, it's in the road somewhere..
Time for an adjustable Torque Arm..

looks like you fared pretty well tho, when mine snapped it twisted my exhaust tube somehow and my driveshaft hit the top of the ds tunnel and it blew a seal out in the tranny

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04-16-2007, 08:50 AM

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damn i was hoping you were looking for another stock one merv, i have like 17 of them laying around. along with lower control arms, panhard pars, bose amps, bose self amped door speakers, all the stock junk.

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04-16-2007, 08:52 AM

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UMI all the way!! Cool guys there! Heres my set-up......
(need new pic with my adj. PHB!

is that an airbag in your right rear spring?

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04-16-2007, 09:09 AM

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It that picture you are trying to use the WRONG holes, slide the arm to the right and use the other holes. If that arm slide on that far to almost use the inner holes then that means it slide WAY past the other holes to get that far, correct?

Everytime I reply your e-mails it takes you 2-3 weeks to reply back.. I just gave up.

Ryan

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UMI makes a good product i got there adj panhard on my car.. but i got one of there torque arms and it doesnt fit they told me to try the other holes that dont fit either $200 piece of junk atm

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04-16-2007, 09:15 AM

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So while talking about cross members, anyone fitting 3" exhaust over a spohn one that isn't the one thats dipped down? I keep scraping my spohn crossmember off of everything, and I want to lower my car which I can't possible think of doing while running the cross member with the dip in it.

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04-16-2007, 09:30 AM

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I got the exact same question here.The spohn cross member for LT dips way to much and i scrape everything and im still on stock height.

Im about to install my kooks long tube with the matching "y" pipe and wanted to know if a straight cross member would be ok in terms of clearance.