Control Arm Shims

Posted by Gary On 2011/11/21 12:22:07

Hopefully I did this right and the photo posts. It's not nasty underneath like this anymore but look closely at the shims between the rear mounting point of the control arm and the crossmember. My car has shims on both sides at this location. I thought "Oh know, it's been wrecked!"...but I see absolutely no signs of it having sustained frame damage but obviously, it needed shims to gain additional caster...What baffles me is that the shims look to be factory installed or dealer installed as they have original undercoating on them. Now I'm wondering if the crossmember to frame rail assembly was performed correctly when built.

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