Hey guys,
A local friend is in the process of rebuilding the front suspension and steering in his '68 Charger. Today he pulled the strut rods and noticed that the bushings in the rebuild kit (rubber) are thicker than the stock ones by a fair margin. I used urethane in my car and cut the rear one back so they matched the overall thickness of my worn out stock ones.
Tomorrow I'm going to do a side by side mock up with new bushings on one side and the new ones on the other. My guess is that even with both sides cranked down, the new bushings will still be thicker, resulting in a slight loss of caster.
Obviously any loss of caster is bad.
The upper control arms already have new stock type rubber bushings installed so it might be late to use the Moog offset bushings.
I am curious who has dealt with this and if so, did you just cut away part of the bushing to get it to be as thick as the originals?

They're supposed to be compressed when installed. In the center of the bushing is a sleeve that acts as a stop for the washers. Tighten down to the stop.

Its normal

This will affect caster. The only check I can think of is the lower control arm should be straight outwards or perpendicular to the torsion bar with or without the strut rod.