Are my upper A-Arms backwards???

[Danny T]

Excuse the ignorance everyone, but i recently put on some +2 metal-tech a arms and my steering feels a bit stiffer than before.

I know my lower a arms on correct (they only fit one way)

BUT Are my upper a-arms on correctly?

Right Side


Left Side

[preddy08]

looks like it. I just went through the same thing. Got it all assembled and stood back and realized my upper a-arms were up side down.

[Krandall]

Hard to tell by the pic, but.. question. where the ball joings go. is that hole for the actual balljoint tapered or flat? (as in.. does it angle or straight..) don't know if that makes sense

[jonesi700r]

looks like they are on right, my ishock a-arms were straight in the front and angled in the rear like those. mine was also hard to turn at first, but i adjusted the toe in and that helped.

[preddy08]

I have eyeball engineering a-arms, but they almost look like the same arm as yours.

Heres a pic of the uppers upside down


and right side up

[Danny T]

thanks for the pictures preddy, they were indeed upside down, the ball joints are supposed to be parrallel. Now i am trying to figure out if there swapped side by side as well. Hmm.

[Krandall]

thanks for the pictures preddy, they were indeed upside down, the ball joints are supposed to be parrallel. Now i am trying to figure out if there swapped side by side as well. Hmm.

That's what I was getting at.. I think they were on the wrong sides upside down.

[Danny T]

i sent pictures of the flipped over to jeff @ metal tech and he said they are right now. so they were not swapped side by side, but just flipped upside down.

O and randy, your original question had me so confused i didnt know what to say lol. now i know what you mean, and yes they are angeled, supposed to be both facing the sky in parrallel.

[Krandall]

i sent pictures of the flipped over to jeff @ metal tech and he said they are right now. so they were not swapped side by side, but just flipped upside down.

O and randy, your original question had me so confused i didnt know what to say lol. now i know what you mean, and yes they are angeled, supposed to be both facing the sky in parrallel.

Yeah, I didn't know how to word it to make sense. Glad you got it figured out though.