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Disc brake upgrade was fine now major alignment issue.

jaegzie

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Long story short. I have a 59 bugeye that I swapped the disc brake from a 74 midget onto. With not changing any bushing etc... It went on fine and was in close alignment from looking at it. So the car rolled turned everything as it should. While doing this I noticed the bushing were bad. So I ordered them to replace them

The a arm is from the bugeye and the link going to the Steering rack is bugeye. Everything else is from the 74.

After I took the top off to replace the bushings I put it back together. Now it looks like this and I can't figure out why. The top is out probably 4 inches. I must have put something together wrong but I took the top off replaced bushing and this is how far out it was. The only other thing I did was put the pin in the king pin at the a arm.

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Don't worry Mike, almost all of us have done this at one time or another....the trunnion, which the swivel pin goes into at the top of the suspension has been mounted backwards.....Just take the big bolt out which mounts it to the shock, and turn the trunnion around and hey, it will look like a Sprite again!
Cheers,
Scott in CA
 
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