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Originally Posted by JCunningham
you and your authority have no idea what they're talking about. to many ****ing retards on this form that have no mechanical sense at all. If i can move those bushings down with a few wacks of a hammer they're going to eventually move and your cradles going to be crooked. but its your car so who gives a ****. This is a reason professionals dont come on forums.
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Just because you do automotive work for a living doesn't mean your theories are always correct. There are countless examples of "professionals" messing up cars. In fact, know-it-all "professionals" are why many people cringe when they need to take their car to get it worked on. People turn to the forums to do things for themselves, because "professionals" are often the same folks who struggled in school with objective tests. When these people get out into the world they're no longer tested objectively, and over time they start to think they know everything because nobody is there to tell them otherwise. Meanwhile, the guys who excelled at academics, because they actually know what they are talking about, go on in life to become engineers. These engineers work to design things like suspension systems for cars. It's laughable when the people in garages with GEDs hop on forums, call themselves "professionals" and act like they know more about cars than the engineers designing them.
You're simply wrong about this, so please stop posting bogus theories on my thread. Go start a new thread and post all of the bad info you want. I won't intervene.
The bushings don't move. You just have a theory with no evidence...I have the real-world tested counterexample to your theory in my garage. It would literally take something as severe as a car accident to get them to move. In a car accident, it isn't going to make a difference whether you put that negligible gap on the top or bottom, it could move either way.
Even if they did move, the movement of the bushing alone isn't going to change the alignment. Anything that would impact the alignment in any meaningful way is self-contained within the cradle. Even if the bushings moved on just one side and not the other, which again, they don't move, the cradle's relationship to the ground, the toe, the camber, the sway bar, nothing changes because it's all self-contained within the cradle assembly.
The only suspension pieces that bridge the gap between the cradle and body are the the shocks and springs. Again assuming the bushings move, which they don't, a 1/16" side-to-side difference in the compression of the springs and shocks isn't going to make any difference. There's probably more delta than that naturally just due to the fact that the weight of the car isn't perfectly distributed. If you think about the weight distribution differences between drivers of different weight, or even the difference between passenger/no passenger, it's easy to see the compression of the springs and shocks is going to differ by more than 1/16" side-to-side.