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i dont follow. The brake force is on the strut rod no matter what direction the car is moving. its not like rubber bonded to a shell is not bending/twisting in all sorts of of axis/directions.



The braking force is creating a moment on the LCA. The strut rod alone cannot react a moment, there will be some axial load on the bushing as well. When braking in fwd direction the load will push the bushing against the shoulder of the pin but when braking in reverse the force will move the bushing aft on the pin and there is no shoulder to stop it so the LCA wil move aft. This won't happend with the stock bushing because the busing is bonded on inner and outer sleeves and press fitted in the LCA and on the pins, the rubber is twisting every time the LCA is moving up or down but this allow the bushing to react axial load.



a proper length rod/bushing will keep the LCA where it needs to be. I wouldn't trust any real physics"moment" on bonded rubber. the fact that bonded rubber survives tells you its doing WAY less than you think locating the LCA fore/aft. Besides the attachment of the strut in inboard of the BJ so if its getting cockeyed on the pin from for/aft moments, a stiffer bushing will locate the LBJ better when you experience those moments. And the strut rod is in TENSION during forward braking not compression. literally pulling the car to a stop from the K and those two strut nuts . If any moving is going on its the outer bushing of the strut getting squashed. the LCA being the triangulated link should go inward

if the LCA moves at all the strut rod assy will put it back assuming it was installed correctly in the first place to locate the LCA. again the strut rod assy locates the LCA/LBJ not the LCA bushing. if the LCA is moving aft, the strut is too long and/or in the wrong position due to the strut rod bushing. it is pushed back not pulled.

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want to keep the LCA from moving aft? a springloaded TB retainer/cap (pat pending! ;-) is a simple idea. probably too simple that if needed someone would sell them already. wont be difficult to put the gopro underneath to see all this LCA walkabout.