camaroeater

Its the upper control arm bushings that go inside the differential. The metal sleeves that hold the bushings are not seated fully in the differential. They are sticking out about an 1/4 inch on each side. Im wondering if i can just tighen up the bolts, to fully seat them.
If i can, once its on jack stands, where do i raise the differential?

I would just get new bushings, but I plan on doing upper/lower control arms in the future, but don't have the money right now. So, at the least, i would like to get them fully seated.

mjr46

they aren't suppose to be fully seated they get centered, I just always install them in accordance with how much the originals were centered which is 1/4 to 3/8 an inch from being seated and a special tool is used to install them.

camaroeater

One side is about 1/4" from being seated and the other is about 3/8", so i guess there ok then, thanks Mjr.

My main concern was that one tire sticks out about a 1/4" more than the other. I found a long thread of others saying that fords in the 80's and 90's didn't have strict tolerances for supsension and frame geometry. So there would be runs where stuff didn't line up EXACTLY.

Also, I heard that the driveshaft angle has to be offset for the needle bearing to spin freely. So, ford sits the rear end to the right or left just a hair to get the correct angle.

Ive checked the torque boxes and measured the distances on each side in various spots and nothing is bent or off. Im not gonna stress anymore and think that it might line up better when i do upper/lower control arms.