Well, after having the work done on Ian, we looked at Conner's front and rear end. In the front there is a replaced link bolt on the right side of the stablizer bar and it is longer than the original on the left side. Why would this be? It was done under previous the owner at the Corvette Barn here. Also, the rear stut bars are still original, the bushiings are still good, but the bars are curved upward, not straight like the new ones put in Ian. Why would that be? There is a new composite leaf spring put in by the same Corvette Barn, the local corvette shop here. He rides just fine with no handling problems, so I'm not complaining just wondering why the difference. thanks for all the answers so far. Aegisfang38499.7642592593

Not sure why your struts are curved. The old ones I pulled off my 76 were straight. I don't know why you would have one link longer than the other either. Mine are both the same length.

Just a tid bit. I am no expert but, I was told by an older vette guy that some shops that didn't know how to correctly repair rear wheel alignment used to bend the strut bars until the wheels came true. The other situation was that sometimes shops would put the lift plates under these bars when they lifted the cars to work on the underside for any reason resulting in a sometimes bent strut.

Some of the original strut rods were bent.  Both of mine are evenly bent.  It was a design to allow some slight ground clearance.  But the straight ones are stronger in regards to side impact, say a curb or pot hole.

But you should complain about the stablizer bar links not matching.  The should be the same length.  Different lengths will preload the suspension slightly to one side.  If both were changed with slightly longer or shorter ones, that would be okay.  But only slightly.  Different suppliers will do this to make the link components into a more universal application, fitting more cars, and thus cutting inventory.

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I rebuilt my trailing arms last summer which included spindle replacement. The short of it is, the in and out play on the spindle should be between .001" to .008" as measured with a dial indicator. It's perfered to be closer to .001" end play. The castle nut on the end of the spindle should be torqued to 100 ft-lbs. It does take a few special tools to do the rebuild including the bearing set-up but there not too expensive. The end play is set using shims.

Hope this helps

Glen

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I agree but anything over 5 thou is going to give problems.

Thanks for all your answers. So far Ian has settled about an inch so far so we are going to wait another 2 weeks then see if we need to get the 8 inch bolts. Aegisfang38509.7845949074