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flipper I don't know what front end you have but I have a 66 xke and the ball joints are adjustable you remove the 4 bolts that hold them to the a arm and the top comes off and has a stack of shims just remove enough shims to adj. for wear Hope this might help......ted

Originally Posted by ted dehaan

flipper I don't know what front end you have but I have a 66 xke and the ball joints are adjustable you remove the 4 bolts that hold them to the a arm and the top comes off and has a stack of shims just remove enough shims to adj. for wear Hope this might help......ted

Mine are make the same way. It looks like dirt and water got in there many years ago...the bottom of the ball is chewed up and worn and so is the cap. These need to be replaced to be made right.

The Miller design for the control arms aligned the arms with the center of the wheels due to the fact that the Miller arms encased the drive axles. Top arm dipped down, the bottom arm dipped up and hid under the top arm.

Since I don't have to work around front drive axles, I am thinking about "dropping" the control arms....lowering the attachment point on the car and the upper control arm would come out flat like miller's design and then bend up the outside end to attach to the spindle. The inside end of the upper arm would also be raised up (inside the bodywork) so that arm geometry would be closer to parallel.

Anybody see a real problem with this idea? ...other than the fact that the upper arm will need to be beefy?


Miller's beautiful engineering.

Here's a few Miller pictures .One is a rear wheel drive. There may be an idea here you could incorporate. Also a torsion bar set up.

Tom

Originally Posted by 39Deluxe

Here's a few Miller pictures .One is a rear wheel drive. There may be an idea here you could incorporate. Also a torsion bar set up.

Tom

Thanks for all of the pics.

I haven't had much chance to put any quality time in on this one recently...hope to this month.

A straight axle would probably be a lot easier to do, but I want to use the jaguar hubs so I can keep the knock-off wire wheels. I also want to use the jag front disc brakes.

I think I will HAVE to go IFS to keep those parts.

The Rally cars are really doing something for me. I found more pics.