Urgent Help Needed - F80 LCA & TS Install

[pugnacious14]

Hello! My mechanic is working on installing the F80 LCAs & TSs using a kit from williams. It's for an F22 (M240) but I was hoping someone on the F80 forum would be knowledgeable on this. Here's the kit:

Link to kit here



The kit did not include instructions with where to install the spacers provided. Can anyone confidently tell me where the short and tall spacers need to be mounted on the control arms & tension struts, and why? Does it need to be as shown below or reversed? Shop is wanting to wrap up install in next few hours, would be awesome to get direction soon.

[jfritz27]

I suspect the tension strut uses the shorter ones, but can't the mechanic tell by just quickly measuring the side-to-side distance of the OEM arm's bearing where it sits in the subframe mount (hole-to-hole)? Whichever spacers reproduce that same distance is what you need

[pugnacious14]

Originally Posted by jfritz27

I suspect the tension strut uses the shorter ones, but can't the mechanic tell by just quickly measuring the side-to-side distance of the OEM arm's bearing where it sits in the subframe mount (hole-to-hole)? Whichever spacers reproduce that same distance is what you need

I found this thread, which was super helpful:

https://www.2addicts.com/forums/show....php?t=1250352

Basically you're correct, the spacers do get installed on the tension struts bushings as an adapter for F22 cars. The taller spacer gets installed on the on the inside, and the shorter spacer gets installed on the outside.

[M3SQRD]

Originally Posted by pugnacious14

I found this thread, which was super helpful:

https://www.2addicts.com/forums/show....php?t=1250352

Basically you're correct, the spacers do get installed on the tension struts bushings as an adapter for F22 cars. The taller spacer gets installed on the on the inside, and the shorter spacer gets installed on the outside.

Good find and you beat me to it! However, as you’ve stated, thicker spacers outboard, thinner spacers inboard.