OK GUY'S; Maybe I missed it, but I have been trying to locate a complete front suspension and steering ( tie rods & ball joints ) as well as upper and lower control arm bolt torqe specifications and have come up with some but not all of the specs :confused: I am literally ready to put my front suspension back together real soon and am trying to get all the information I can before so graemlins/beers.gif Any information will gladly be reall apprecitated :D

Also guy's I also have a question that I would like to ask my fellow Chevelle guru's, I installed my new PST bushings last night, and I do know that when I removed my original 33 year old rubber bushing shells ( this applies to the round ones only ) the shells were spot welded from the factory :confused: OK, now knowing that the Poly graffite bushings are a lot different and the fact that you have to lubricate the bushings wherever thet come in contact with metal, I came to the conclusion that these bushing are a completly different animal, and that they will literally rotate on the center shaft therefore not needing to weld the shell to the control arm to prevent the shell from rotating within the lower control arm graemlins/thumbsup.gif If you guy's feel that I should weld these shells, or not please pipe in :confused: I cetainly hope that I am cool because I just painted them today and I will be really bumming if I have to spot weld them :(

Thanks in advance guy's
ZIGGY 454

The Factory Assembpy manual has the torque specs in it. It's really worth picking up. A lot of the repro parts dealers have them.

I'd give you the specs out of mine, but I'm at work.

I didn't weld the bushing shells with my PST bushings. My stock rubber were not welded either. The idea is that the press fit shell should be a lot harder to rotate than the poly bushing material. If it was an easy job to get the bushings in the control arms, they might need to be tacked.

Tim.

ME too, me too.

I would love if someone could post the front susp. torque specs since I'm about to dig into that. Thanks.

I knew they where listed before. Here you go:

http://www.chevelles.com/cgi-bin/forum/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=35;t=000291

Tim.

Thanks TronDD graemlins/beers.gif Evidently I did not search hard enough :eek:

Anyway great information and again thanks to all for your replies :D

PS; what did we all do before the internet and great sites like TEAM CHEVELLE that keep our hobby alive and well graemlins/waving.gif

Thanks again guy's graemlins/beers.gif

ZIGGY454

Upon reviewing the tourqe specs on a previous posting here that TronDD kindly pointed out to me, I did not see any specs for the lower front control arm bolts :confused:

Anybody know these specs, also what are the specs for the upper control arm shaft with the big nut style that clamp the bushings to the shaft graemlins/thumbsup.gif

Thanks guy's graemlins/beers.gif

ZIGGY454

Lower arms: 70-90 ft/lbs

I don't see a spec for the upper arm bushing bolts so I don't know what to tell ya. I have the type that uses a nut, too, and I can't recall what I torqued them to. I guess I just made them tight. smile.gif

Tim.

Thanks once again TronDD graemlins/beers.gif

I really appreiciate your quick responses, I'll have this baby ready for rubber in no time graemlins/hurray.gif

Thanks again Tim graemlins/thumbsup.gif

PS; I see you are from MA., what town ?? :D

ZIGGY454

Oh, hey, look at that. I didn't notice your location. I'm in Tewksbury. I loose my job in 4 weeks so if you need a hand with something I'll have time to spend on Chevelles. graemlins/thumbsup.gif

Tim.

WOW :D Well hey neighbor !! Small world graemlins/beers.gif

Sorry to hear that you will be losing your job Tim, well hey look on the bright side, more time to drive the VELLE graemlins/thumbsup.gif graemlins/thumbsup.gif

Anyway; what Cruise nights do you usually go to, I'm sure you go to the one at the Picadilly Pub,s parking lot, that is one that I have never made it to graemlins/clonk.gif

Hope to see you this summer at one of the cruise nights :D graemlins/thumbsup.gif
And Thanks again for sending me those front torque specs !!!! ;)

ZIGGY454

Sent you an email, if you didn't notice. graemlins/thumbsup.gif

Tim.

TronDD; You have mail