09-27-2006, 08:20 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Flower Mound, TX,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Lonestar LS 427, Keith Craft 501,Toploader
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The other day one of my bars had begun to squeek a little. After close inspection, I noticed one of my bars were binding up a little. So I adjusted all of them by 1st measuring the left bars and matching the length of right bars. It took quite a while to do this because when you barely turn one bar, it binds annother bar. Once all the bars were unbound,(as close as they could) and the tops and bottoms were the exact length, I took it for a test drive. First thing I noticed was the streeing wheel was now crooked, and I had to get back under the car and turn out the passenger side bars to straighten things out. So, that meant that something was not square with the 4-bar mounts. As far as being unbound, like I said ,I got the bars as close as they would possibly go. I used to wrench on a sprint car that had radius rods (same as the 4-link bars, only aluminum and much beter), all over the rear and the front as well. When I had them unbound, you could move them with two fingers very easily. Maybe our bars are just kinda cheap and need to be replaced with something much beter.
Tim
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