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Front lower control installed with angle wrong, help needed...

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Old Feb 15, 2013 | 08:59 PM
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Default Front lower control installed with angle wrong, help needed...

So my lower control is installed with the angle pointed towards my tire instead of it towards the middle of the body. This is causing some rubbing issues at full cut. The passenger side control arm is installed correctly and I have no issues rubbing at all

Is the fix simply just flipping the control arm or is there more to it than that?

The lift is the Rough Country 4'' x-series. Rides pretty smooth even with the 2.2 shocks. Gave me a good 2'' extra clearance on top of my Teraflex 2.5 BB. Pleased with the road manners so far.
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Old Feb 15, 2013 | 09:14 PM
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You may have the arms on the wrong side. I know my control arms can only go on one way or they ain't right.

This isn't going to hurt but you should get it fixed soon
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Old Feb 15, 2013 | 09:28 PM
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Thanks. I didn't think of them being side specific. I am not sure they are but I am going to find out tomorrow.

The instructions say "The bend on the lower control arm should be facing inward to allow for the tires to achieve full lock to lock turning". That is the case on the passenger side but not the drivers.

They are fully adjustable so I didn't know if I would mess any caster/camber type stuff by just giving it a half turn to put the angle facing inward.
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Old Feb 15, 2013 | 09:38 PM
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If you leave both ends attached and try to flip the arm it will probably thread in/out the ends and change your control arm length. Will it be enough to make a difference? Idk. To leave the arm length set the way it is you would need to detach both ends then flip. Then re attach both ends.
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Old Feb 15, 2013 | 09:49 PM
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Dr., that makes the most sense. I will just do that and flip the arm and shouldn't have any issues after that since the arms are already set to the proper length and what not. I was thinking too much into what I should do.
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