I have a 2000 LX sedan 4 cylinder. I recently damaged my right front wheel on a jump in the pavement and I think my suspension is out of whack from the impact because now the car pulls right. I have measured camber and toe which are ok. The caster is the only thing I am not sure about. One measurement I took showed that the right lower control arm is farther back than the left one by about 1/4". A Honda service tech I talked to said the radius rod is not adjustable on the 2000 Accord.

I remember my 1987 Prelude had an adjustable radius rod in that you could move the nuts on the forward end. The end of the rod was threaded and the bushings that plug into the holes in the forward chassis beam were sandwiched between the two nuts. That way you could adjust the lower control arm forward or back using these nuts. I figured my 2000 Accord would have a similar set-up, but that service guy told me that Honda changed the design to where the forward end of the radius rod is pressed into the front beam. He said they have to use some sort of hydraulic device to remove/install the radius rod. I find this hard to believe because then a good bump could pop the radius rod out of the mounting hole in the front beam.

Anybody know how the radius rod is mounted to the foarward beam in a 2000 Accord?

 

 

Thanks for the diagram. That's great. It looks like the radius rod is threaded but not adjustable. I am not sure how it could have gotten pulled out of position, but I'll check it out this weekend.