hearthe5ohroar

I doubt it's tweeked if the factory 4 banger was taken out and replaced with a factory 5.0...... And if it were tweeked, there would be noticable changes to the frame (welds broken, new welds, ect....) I mean, I thought maybe the engine got a little twisted when I dropped it back down in after loosening the motor mounts to twist the engine enough to get the drivers side header installed, but I went back over it and made sure that it was sitting in there nice and straight...... I even had a few other sets of eyes on it and they agreed that it was in the right place, but still somehow rubbing the steering arm.

PONY GUY

well your car could have bene in a accident and they didnt straighten the fram all the way did it drive straight??? I would losen al your motor mounts and trans mount and try to see if you can possible straighten the drive train anny

hearthe5ohroar

No, I don't think it was in an accident. There's nothing on the carfax report. I know that doesn't always mean a whole lot mainly because there's a little bit of a "wedge" style gap between the front drivers side fender. So I guess there's a chance that something happened once upon a time. But I still don't think that straightening the driveshaft any will fix my steering arm problem..... Unless I'm not catching the point....

Red86LX

I have an 86 LX with the BBK equals and have the same problem, there isalmost a groove in my steering shaft from where it rubbing the header, im gunna ditch the bbks and go full length.

nick_thames

get a flaming river steering shaft. very low profile and slim. will fix your shaft hittng the headers. last thing you want to do is go into a corner and the wheel hangs on you. I had to do it with mine. I put hooker longtubes on and the old shaft would hit. you could try to trim the ears off the shaft but the flaming river peice is nice. $160 bucks i think.

By the way. my car is a 4cyl conversion.