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Jedi Knight
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Monday I dropped my fuel tank to replace the sending unit and spent some time looking over the undercarriage and found that I am missing a trailing arm. Some time in the car's past, adjustable trailing arms were installed, and the joints were all that was left of one. So being a person that likes shiny things, I ordered a pair of Speedwell adjustable arms and went to put them in this morning. Before I do that, I'd like to set them at the stock length. Can someone provide me with the center to center measurement of a stock trailing arm?
 
The purposes of the adjustable trailing arms enables you to set differential angles! As well, If you track the car and a course has more LH turns than RH turns the adjustments enables you to make one side shorter to take advantage of the turn radius. If most of your driving is street, set jack stands under axle with weight of car on it, adjust differential angle from top center of differential with a magnetic protractor to -1 or +1 degrees to give u-joint some mobility to keep needle bearings lubed but keeping the lengths the same on both sides.
 
Never thought about the ability to adjust with one side shorter for different tracks. Thanks for the tips!
 
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