Installed: AIM drop spindles

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Installed: AIM drop spindles
crazymikey avatar
crazymikey
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right now,the tires are so close to the fender you'd be hard pressed to get a piece of paper between them. I've cranked the torsions up so much I think the truck is sitting a little higher in the front than the back just to give me enough clearance to drive it.

I went to go get an alignment a while ago when I had the ball joints flipped and a couple shops I went to wouldn't even touch it.
speedster93b avatar
speedster93b
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do it your self back yard style with a tape measure! you obviously fixed your camber issue so you just need to fix toe now right?
mazdapromp3 avatar
mazdapromp3
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Hey crazymikey do you have any pictures of the drop spindles? Does the casting look the same on both of them? I just recieved a set and the casting around the caliper tabs is different.
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madmazda avatar
madmazda
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Im pretty sure there both suppose to be the same casting, i think you might have 2 different spindles dude...
joshbrennan avatar
joshbrennan
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Looks to me your have 2 different spindles too. Here are some pics of the ones I just sold to crazymikey.



whiteyb22 avatar
whiteyb22
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Whoo wants to help me put my spindles on!!!!! ive had mine for a while now and have no place to put em on i got z-71'a they'll clear right.... I hope so
crazymikey avatar
crazymikey
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you don't have a driveway or parking space? They're pretty easy to do,provided you can get all your ball joint bolts undone.

Doing my spindles was easy because I had flipped my balljoints in january and put new hardware in,but if yours haven't been touched for a while,count on breaking some bolts like I did.
v8mazda4ever avatar
v8mazda4ever
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Whityb22 if you want help pm me and give me your phone number and we can set some thing up
whiteyb22 avatar
whiteyb22
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well the only thing i'm worried about is that the ball joints will break and i need my truck as a daily driver do i need to remove the upper joints... i'd like to drop it and keep it safe the lower ball joints i know will be garbage after I notice that the lower ball joints that came with the spindles aren't threaded i just need to have the truck in and out and would like some help from people with experience i'm very hands on just don't want to make any mistakes to learn from me lol

thanks for offering help pm sent
immortal1 (linn) avatar
immortal1 (linn)
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Just went thru the same thing with the daughters truck (alignment) Can give you many different backyard methods to get the alignment VERY close. Most difficult part is the caster adjustment, but can be done. PM me if interested as I can't always remember which thread I commented on (it's an age thing )