To finalize my UCA mounts, I tightened down the passenger side mounts, and used a crescent wrench to tighten the UCA upper locknuts to capture the bushings.
I followed the directions in the manual to adjust the UCAs with the measurements to get things “close” enough to get a final alignment specs. What throws many people off is that the UCAs don’t “mirror” each other side to side, they’re flipped… so the adjustments are different on each side.
I think I did pretty good!
Since my KONI shocks won’t be in till end of month, I didn’t want a bunch of parts laying around. I pre-mounted the bolts and spacers for the shocks.
Now it gets fun, I get to open another BOX! Box #20 in my case was the front IFS spindles, steering arms, and hubs! I was able to hand assemble everything pretty easily, but then there were a LOT of nuts and bolts that were NOT in the FFR tools list… things like 1 1/16″, and 1.4″ sockets AND the 225-250 ft-lb torque wrench… sadly mine only goes to 200 ft-lbs.
Here’s the lovely castle nut for the LCA that needs the large socket. Thankfully my dad (who passed away last year) gave me his dad’s (my pap pap) toolbox and it has a 1 1/16th socket! over 100 year old Craftsman socket still going strong!! WOOHOO!
I did struggle at first to tighten the steering arms and castle nuts, but once you have the steering arms mounted a bit -you can lift the whole assembly then lower it to capture the steering arm so you get leverage.
after all the wrenching, things look great!
and the best part – one more box gone!
