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Ok I just bought a 93 5 speed legacy sedan awd from a buddy and i have some questions about the alignment that I just dont know the answer to. The car was in a fender bender, well more of a midnight someone drunken driving through the yard and clipping the front of the car and messing up the hood, fender and bumper. My buddy noticed that passenger wheel had been pushed back a little. So he replaced the lower A arm with a good one had it aligned and thought all was good. He then started to notice that the front passenger tire was wearing odd and I told him it was probably just a crappy alignment. I have had bad experiences with les schwab and their alignments before. Hell i even had one of their guys tell me my king pin was getting worn out, odd how my truck didn't even have a king pins.

So now it sits in my driveway and I was out measuring the front wheels to the back of the car and the passenger tire is still 1/2" farther back then the drivers.

So my question is, is there any kind of adjustment in the front that would allow me to move the front wheel forward 1/2"?

Please forgive my crappy drawing but if i put a couple of body washers where the red arrow is do you think that would move the front wheel forward?

I don't want to give up on this car. It's a great rig. And what I paid, even with a salvaged title is a good price. That and the thing only has just over 100k miles so it is just starting it's life.

Please help with any ideas that you can think of.

It is a possibility that the crossmember or the strut housing was bent...

Don't give up, all of the front and rear suspension stuff is bolt-on on these cars, so even if something gets bent, you can always just bolt on a straight part.

btw: your drawing ain't half bad!

well he said he swapped the front arm already, but you never know it was from the JY. I had someone say to check and see if the crossmember got moved back. I was going to loosen things up just a bit and maybe put a come a long on it and see if i can pull things strait.

i cant see this kind of hit bending the frame, it was like he drug the side of the bumper over the corner of the car. but i did pick up some WRX suspension so if the strut got out of wack I got some stuff that came off an unwrecked car

and thanks I spent up to 5 min drawing that master piece

555BCTurbo wrote:It is a possibility that the crossmember or the strut housing was bent...

Don't give up, all of the front and rear suspension stuff is bolt-on on these cars, so even if something gets bent, you can always just bolt on a straight part.

btw: your drawing ain't half bad!

Thats funny, well not funny as in haha, but i have the same problem on my 90 legacy. I took it to the shop for an alighnment and they said my lower control arm is bent and the tire is pushed back. IM still have not replaced the lower arm yet but I can see that it is bent. Keep us posted on the outcome . good luck