Update on some issues that came up........I'll post them just to maybe help others in the future...... I ended up buying Ride Tech upper and lower A arms and their heavy duty stabilizer bar.....The problem I had after a while was the ride quality went away......Hummm!!!!.... In driving the car on the highway, if I had to make a slight adjustment in steering, the car stayed in that direction, when I adjusted back....same thing....So.....I had to continuously adjust the tracking of the car.......So, I was driving the car instead of riding in it...... So, I was at a car show one day and a guy pulled in and parked next to us and he asked how I liked the NoMad.....Told him about the steering issue and he told me the Ball Joints were the problem.........I figured he didn't know what he was talking about the Ball Joints were only a couple of months old and heavily greased.....So I lived with that situation and hated driving the car on the highway.......So.....Last winter I was on Amazon and decided to look up Moog Ball Joints...I bought upper and lowers and took the front end apart .........Now....The upper ball joints that came with the New Ride Tech A arms were pretty much seized in place and the lowers had enough slop in them I could jiggle them by hand.......I had to put a pipe over the tapered end of the upper to get them to move......that's how galled up they were and that's why I had that steering issue....New parts that were greased regularly.....Probably Chinese Junk!!!!!!........Driving it with the Moog parts it is a whole new car and enjoyable to drive now.......That guy that told me it was the Ball joints must have been a alignment guy to immediately recognize what the issue was.....And I didn't pay attention to him because I assumed because they were new they couldn't be compromised.........LOL....
Issue #2 was the car didn't feel like the front suspension had the usual up and down suspension movement.......LOL.......I found out that when I put the new stabilizer bar (powder coated) I forgot to grease the bar......And the new rubber bushings were locked onto the bar and the front end was pretty much locked in that position........1/2 hour later all fixed.......LOL.......Drives like a Cadillac now.....Sheesh!!!!!!
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