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Price: 279.00 USD

Applications:

1972-1976 Ford Torino & Ranchero

1977-1979 Ford Ranchero, LTD II & Thunderbird

1977-1979 Mercury Cougar

Part# FT-205

These Del-Sphere pivot jointed adjustable rear lower control arms for the 1972-1976 Ford Torino and Ranchero outperform the flexible, stamped steel arms and soft rubber bushings that come from the factory.

Eliminate wheel hop, increase traction, and drastically improve handling with an easy bolt on installation. The Del-Sphere pivot joints provide for “bind-free” handling and no deflection launch performance. They’re available powder coated in your choice of bright red or gloss black for a brilliant and durable finish.

The adjustability feature allows for setting the pinion angle. The factory utilized an eccentric bolt that allowed for only 1 degree of pinion angle adjustment. If you replace your worn out factory bushings with new aftermarket rubber or polyurethane bushings they do not offer the eccentric adjustment. Our right hand and left hand threaded control arms allow for easy on-the-car adjustments, no need to unmount the control arms to make adjustments!

The control arm bushings on the 1972-1976 Ford Torino and Ranchero have a significant impact on your vehicle?s ride, comfort, handling, acceleration, noise and vibration. When the vehicle leans (rolls) in a turn, one side of the chassis moves up relative to the rear axle and the other side moves down.

The control arms must twist to allow for the axle to articulate, this causes the control arm bushings to bind. If this bind becomes excessive, it will raise the rear wheel rate and produce sudden and uncontrolled changes in handling such as snap oversteer.

The factory minimizes this suspension bind by using compliant rubber bushings. These soft bushings help accommodate the necessary motion of the control arms during body roll. However, the rubber bushings do not provide much in the way of forward and aft support which can cause wheel hop during hard acceleration and braking.

It is common to replace the stock rubber control arm bushings with polyurethane bushings to resolve the shortcomings of the factory’s soft rubber bushings. Polyurethane bushings eliminate wheel hop, reduce axle deflection, and improve straight line traction. However, the downside of polyurethane bushings is they prevent the necessary movement of the control arms during body roll, which in turn produces significant binding in the suspension when the vehicle is cornering.

The polyurethane bushings also place high stresses on the control arm mounts on the vehicle. Polyurethane bushed control arms do not allow for rotation of the control arm during cornering because of the stiffness of the bushings.

Del-Spher Pivot Joints:

The Spohn Performance Del-Sphere pivot joint solves the shortcomings of the factory rubber and aftermarket polyurethane bushings. Our Del-Sphere pivot joint incorporates a spherical ball which is surrounded by Delrin® bushing cups.

Think of the Del-Sphere pivot joint as a Delrin® bushed spherical rod end. After over a year of R&D testing here at Spohn Performance on a streetable spherical joint the Del-Sphere pivot joint is the final result. Designed and manufactured exclusively by Spohn Performance, we have taken street suspension performance to the next level.

Our Del-Sphere pivot joint features a one piece forged and heat treated chrome moly housing, a heat treated and chrome plated chrome moly spherical ball, Delrin® bushing cups, heat treated retainer washer and snap ring, heat treated and chrome plated chrome moly threaded adjuster ring, an external grease fitting, and a beautiful silver zinc plated housing finish.

The Delrin® bushing cups absorb shock and road noise so you get the quiet and smooth ride of a bushing as well as 28 degrees of rotation! Our Del-Sphere pivot joints will always ship to you fully assembled, however, we also offer an optional adjusting tool that will allow you to do two things.

First, you can disassemble the Del-Sphere pivot joint for cleaning, inspection, etc. Second, you can adjust the amount of tension on the spherical ball. The amount of tension can be easily adjusted by using our optional adjustment tool to tighten or loosen the end retainer ring.

What that means is if over time and miles the tolerances open up you can simply re-adjust the retainer ring and have your pivot joint as tight as it was the day it was brand new. We doubt you’ll ever need to replace the Delrin® bushing cups, but they certainly can be. Unlike a spherical rod end, the Del-Sphere pivot joint is 100% rebuildable.

Specifications & Features:

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Price: 239.00 USD

Application: 1978-1987 GM G-Body – Regal, Malibu, Monte Carlo, etc.

Part# 213-OS

These LCAs are supplied with offset rod end spacers to keep the LCA positioned as inboard as possible for maximum tire clearance on big tire cars.

These offset spherical rod ended adjustable rear lower control arms for the 1978-1987 GM G-Body cars outperform the flexible, stamped steel arms and soft rubber bushings that come from the factory.

Eliminate wheel hop and increase traction with an easy bolt on installation. The high quality spherical rod ends provide for “bind-free” handling and no deflection launch performance.

All of our spherical rod ended components come equipped with XM Series extra high strength, chrome moly spherical rod ends with a Teflon® lined self lubricating race.

When shopping around for spherical rod ended components, do not shop on price alone. The lower grade rod ends (which are much cheaper) will not hold their tolerances like the premium rod ends we utilize, this will cause substantial amounts of noise and a loose fit in a short amount of time.

They’re available powder coated in your choice of bright red or gloss black for a brilliant and durable finish. The solid connections will increase road noise, these are a race oriented product.

Specifications & Features:

• Eliminate wheel hop and increase traction.
• Constructed of 1.25″ x .095″ wall DOM tubing.
• Stronger, yet lighter than stock.
• TIG welded 4130N chrome moly threaded tube adapters for maximum thread strength.
• 3/4″ chrome moly spherical rod ends with Teflon® lined self lubricating race.
• Right hand and left hand threaded ends with wrench flat allows for easy on-the-car adjustments.
• CNC machined through sleeve and silver zinc plated steel spacers keep the rod ends inboard offset inside of the vehicle mounting brackets for maximum tire clearance.
• Re-uses OEM mounting hardware, no need to drill out your car’s LCA mounting bracket holes.
• Easy 100% bolt in installation with the use of basic hand tools.
• Available powder coated in your choice of bright red or gloss black for a brilliant and durable finish.

Priced per Pair — Qty. 1 = 1 Pair

Fitment Note: These LCAs do NOT have mounting holes for a factory style rear sway bar. These LCAs should be used with our Part# 919 Pro-Touring rear sway bar or our Part# 920 Pro-Series rear anti-roll drag race sway bar that mount to the frame rail. You can purchase one of these by searching for the preceding part numbers in our eBay Store.

Specify Color Choice When Ordering:

Color: You must specify red or black when ordering.

Related Products:

Control Arm Mounting Hardware: New control arm mounting hardware kit. You can purchase this by searching for Part# 981 in our eBay Store.