Tubular A Arms hitting inner fenders

I am in the process of installing QA1 tubular A Arms on my 1972 GS. The passenger side A Arm is hitting my inner fender well. The drivers side is very close, and may hit once the car is on the ground. It looks like I will have to trim about an inch of the fender well. It is the upper arms, and they are hitting the side closest to the firewall.

Has anyone else had any clearance issues while installing tubular A Arms?

Thank you.

Tom

 

I used Global West, on a '68 Cutlass and had plenty of room. I'd call QA-1 and ask about clearance issue.

 

Maybe I have the left and right backwards? QA1 tech wasn't much help. Looking at the upper arm, the ball joint isn't centered between the 2 bushings. It is closer to one side. To tell drivers side from passenger, should the ball joint be closer to the front or car, or rear?

Thank you.

Tom

 

A picture is worth a thousand words! I have tubular generic arms on mine and it doesn't hit anything any where.

 

I'm unable to attach a picture on this site for some reason.

 

use photobucket.com put

 

Here's what mine looks like. There isn't that much different between a stock arm and a tubular arm. Unless yours is really odd, I'm having a hard time visualizing it.

 

As you said, it's really easy with these tubular arms to get them on the wrong side. Look at your stock arms and verify the orientation of the ball joint relative to the new ones. It does sound like you might have the sides swapped.

 

Yes, the ball joint should be farther back than forward. Most tubulars induce more positive caster so that moves the ball joint rearward of the lower ball joint. If the top is farther forward than the lower, definitely swapped sides.

 

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Not sure if that worked. Photobucket is blocked at work

 

Same for me

 

I do believe you have them on the wrong side. That big elbow bend will clear the front if you swap them to the opposite side.