Okay, that ditch picture brings back memories of your earlier posts.

Not that it matters to the question at hand, but did you ever resolve your power steering issue, or did you end up converting to manual steering?

Some observations and comments about your situation and the comments posted by others:

1. The factory specs for ride height are from the floor to a point not affected by the subtleties and foibles of sheet metal. Practically speaking, the real world usually does it by sight or with a tape measure at the fender lip. The heights that people end up with are all over the map, and absent other complications (like a fender lip eating up a tire), this shade-tree approach usually works. There are two important points to remember, though. Get the height the same from side-to-side, and do all height adjustments BEFORE getting the alignment done.

2. Changing camber, caster, and toe do not appreciably change the ride height.

3. No old car exists absent a history. The history of yours includes a close encounter of the ditch kind, and if memory serves, a 440 swap on top of non big block torsion bars. Your choices to keep the old t-bars and not have the front end professionally inspected for damage after the ditch incident are making your life more complicated.

4. Mopar front-ends are surprisingly intolerant of curbs and ditches. This is especially true where the LCA pivot shaft passes through its mounting tube in the K member. At least one poster has previously observed that you might have a problem there. You should now increase that count by another poster.

5. The same size tire that fits on one car may not fit another sample of that identical model. Variables that affect this include but are not limited to wheel offset, ride height, variations found among mass-produced products, and the phase of the moon.

6. You might be able to keep your existing t-bars, adjust the ride height up on the side that is rubbing [and get the car re-aligned], keep your existing wheel/tire combo on the front, and have it no longer rub. You might not.


Down to just a blue car now.