ive seen i went to get my car aligned and guy told me i had the wrong radius rods on my passenger side... i went to the shop where i got some work done on my car... and they put the wrong size radius rod on my passenger side. i went to teh shop they gave me new parts.. but i dont know if there the right ones..








and also can somes one tell me the differnce between each

 

The top pic are ones from a Manual Accord

The lower pic is one from a AUTOmatic (YUCK) They are BFE

 

what year car do you have???
the top looks like for a 86-89 accord
the bottom for a 90 -93

 

i have a 96 5-speed ... i took my car to get aligned and they said they had the wong radius rod on my car.. i looked uder and its seems that i have the 2 top ones.. . the guy at the alignment shop sayed i needed and adjustable one

 

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Those dont look like it to me, the 86-89 were adjustable.

 

The very top one looks like it is the ones for the 5th gen. Mine looked like those. Another thing, those things are only adjustable by adding or taking off the washers that the radius rod connects to the subframe with, but that's only for really small adjustments

 

the top ones are right. the bottom one is from who knows where....

the auto and 5spd are the same. the auto ones are not BEEFIER

the passenger side one is also the curvier of the two of the above picture.

eric is right about the shims. each "washer/shim" between the radius rod and the subframe (on the side of the wheelwell) adds about 1 deg of caster. HOWEVER, its quite a bitch to add those shims.

 

the bottem one is from the passenger side auto transmition accord.. its made that way becuase unlike the 5-speed the auto transmition is in the way so the rod goes under it thats why its bent like that.. i need to find an adjustable radius rod... i heard its a custom auto part tho..

 

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Why? Is something in the suspension bent?

 

just to clarify...

The radius rods in the top picture are from a 1995 Accord EX 5spd. I know because those are my pictures from my totalled Accord.

The radius rod in the lower picture is from a 94-97 automatic I believe. I'm not sure because I recieved it with a passenger side LCA I bought from a junkyard and they just left it on there. The LCA was marked as coming from a 94 Accord and that was it.


Why do you need some custom part? As long as nothing is bent in your suspension then the washer shims used to adjust the radius rods should be enough.

What year/model/tranny do you have?

 

yo Chio i stand corrected you are right up to 89 accords they had adjustable caster on rods

 

got a 96 ex.. i think somthing in the fram might be bent all i need is an extra 2 deg. =/ but they need the custom one for that

 

if something is bent, you should find out what is and either replace it or have it fixed. Then you probably won't need the custom radius rod.

Are you sure it isn't your radius rod that is bent? Have you hit any curbs or big pot-holes or anything lately?