Can you drive a car with out a torque arm??
01-23-2006, 02:38 PM
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Can you drive a car with out a torque arm?? Can you drive a car with out a torque arm??
Trying to sell my brothers car but it does not have a torque arm on it. if some one want to take it for a test drive will it be ok????
Scott
Trying to sell my brothers car but it does not have a torque arm on it. if some one want to take it for a test drive will it be ok????
Scott
01-23-2006, 04:11 PM
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I wouldn't even lower it off the jack(stands) without a torque arm. The springs are located significantly behind the axle. The only things stopping the axle from just spinning around and dropping the car are the shock mounting bolts, which aren't designed for that kind of bending load.
01-24-2006, 05:37 AM
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wow, reading some of you guys responses makes me feel pretty lucky!
I was at a stoplight a couple weeks after my Moser install, and I went to accelerate and it felt like something popped in the back and then a really bad vibration. I pulled to the side of the road, and my TA had come off the rear. (2 top bolts came out), and the pinion angle was all messed up.
Def do not drive it without one.
I was at a stoplight a couple weeks after my Moser install, and I went to accelerate and it felt like something popped in the back and then a really bad vibration. I pulled to the side of the road, and my TA had come off the rear. (2 top bolts came out), and the pinion angle was all messed up.
Def do not drive it without one.
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01-24-2006, 10:04 AM
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i have lowered my car very slowly with out TQ arm on and it sits strai down. I had car in nuetral, and then roled car out of the way. then when parts came in rolled back in and jacked back up. BUT NEVER TRY TO DRIVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
01-25-2006, 01:33 AM
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Originally Posted by 1999Z28
you guys are mean...he obviously posted to make sure so he didn't mess up his car. you guys are real fbody friends 
01-25-2006, 07:56 AM
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wow, reading some of you guys responses makes me feel pretty lucky!
I was at a stoplight a couple weeks after my Moser install, and I went to accelerate and it felt like something popped in the back and then a really bad vibration. I pulled to the side of the road, and my TA had come off the rear. (2 top bolts came out), and the pinion angle was all messed up.
Def do not drive it without one.
I was at a stoplight a couple weeks after my Moser install, and I went to accelerate and it felt like something popped in the back and then a really bad vibration. I pulled to the side of the road, and my TA had come off the rear. (2 top bolts came out), and the pinion angle was all messed up.
Def do not drive it without one.
