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Old 01-16-2008, 01:24 PM
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I've heard a few rumors that certain torque arms may be better suited for the 9" than others. I am also worried about ground clearance since i live near chicago and rougher roads and speed bumps are not uncommon. What torque arm should I get that would best fit my needs?
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Hello,

Any one of our torque arms with the exception to our non-adjustable unit will fit and work well with the Moser 9" rear end. I pasted a link below-

http://www.umiperformance.com/produc...ategory_id=130

If you need any help choosing please contact us.

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ordered from UMI. Thank you.
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Just a heads up. . . .I put a 9" and UMI's adj. torque arm and torque arm relocation bracket in and then the car sat for about 7 months. It would ride fine, but then once you got to ~53 the car would shake like crazy. The rear was fine as it checked out fine with several shops including moser who tore it apart. I had the torque arm adjusted to a million different pinion angles and it continued to shake like crazy. I called UMI and while they were nice about everything they had no answer for me. I put the stock torque arm back in and the shake was entirely gone. I called UMI again to get some suggestions about how to put it in to make it not shake and they still had no answer for me. The last I heard was that I could send the torque arm in for them to look at it. I was told that they would pay for shipping if they found a problem with the torque arm, but that they were sure they wouldnt. . . .lotsa help and really makes me want to spend more money with them

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Originally Posted by Hawk108
Just a heads up. . . .I put a 9" and UMI's adj. torque arm and torque arm relocation bracket in and then the car sat for about 7 months. It would ride fine, but then once you got to ~53 the car would shake like crazy. The rear was fine as it checked out fine with several shops including moser who tore it apart. I had the torque arm adjusted to a million different pinion angles and it continued to shake like crazy. I called UMI and while they were nice about everything they had no answer for me. I put the stock torque arm back in and the shake was entirely gone. I called UMI again to get some suggestions about how to put it in to make it not shake and they still had no answer for me. The last I heard was that I could send the torque arm in for them to look at it. I was told that they would pay for shipping if they found a problem with the torque arm, but that they were sure they wouldnt. . . .lotsa help and really makes me want to spend more money with them

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If you are stil unsure if you have the pinion angle adjusted correctly we have a video explaining the process on the front page of our website www.bmrfabrication.com
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Originally Posted by BMR Fabrication Inc.
If you are stil unsure if you have the pinion angle adjusted correctly we have a video explaining the process on the front page of our website www.bmrfabrication.com

Thanks Lee. . ..I will check it out. It sure would be nice to have a $500 worth of parts that dont just sit in the garage
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Hi Noah,

We did everything we could via phone to help you try to sort the issues out. We have and still have never had a issue with the Moser 9" rear end. We suggested sending it in for us to look at, all we warned you was if it checked out ok there wasn't really to much we could do and it would lead back to your set-up. For pinion angle the Moser 9" is very sensitive to negative angle due to the yoke and we usually do not run them at a negative degree... it does however take some playing around to get the correct setting since every vehicle is different.
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im going to be running a moser 9" too but i think im going with a bmr adjustabl torque arm
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This thread is done. If Hawk108 wants to send stuff back and figure something out it was offered a long time ago, and if he has the funds while in school to buy parts he has the money to pay for half of the cost of shipping a torque arm, what are we talking about $25 maybe? Time to give it a rest.

Oh and I run UMI stuff on my Camaro and it does 1.38 on spray and 1.48 on motor. Very happy.

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