So I finally got around to installing my CHE Anti Squat brackets today along with my Steeda Rear Sway bar, however there is one thing that is kind of bothering me the factory bolt that gets reused on the bottom hole for the LCA seems to me to not be long enough as it barely protrudes from the end of the nut cap. Is this how everyone else is and am I just being overly paranoid?

I used brand new bolts since i had previously removed them to install my LCA awhile back. I compared them with the old ones and they are the exact same. I checked and rechecked the CHE directions and even went onto their site to triple check and it does say to use them in the location that i did.But man it just seems to me as though not enough of the bolt is through the nutcap.

 

Come on now I know there are many of you that have isnatlled these brackets.

 

I have them installed but I do not recall that the stock bolt was noticably short through the nut. They torqued down OK and I haven't had problem with them since and it's been about 5 months give or take ??

 

Here's a few picture of mine.

 

Minimum of 2 threads should be showing.................

Hardware 101

 

As much as I appreciate you trying to help............


I do not need a Hardware 101 lesson. I am trying to hear what others who have the CHE Brackets have.

I find it hard to believe that CHE would supply me with bolts that are to short. And they are about the same as the stock bolts as you can see from my pictures.

One problem with getting some other bolts is, First I should not have to, Second my concern is getting the proper bolts for the application.
Getting suspension bolts at Ace Hardware/Home Depot etc... does not sit well with me.

I would hope that CHE would have supplied me with the bolts that were long enough and if longer ones are required. Then they should supply them to me.

Sorry to sound like an *** but I simply am not in the mood for smart *** replies. I get so sick of that when people are trying to get answers to thier issues. And it's not just this forum or you in particular it seem to be that way on most forums and I get sick and tired of that. Not to just me but to others that are trying to get help.

If you cannot answer the speicifc question at hand and give someone help and only choose to give a smart *** reply

Then DON'T!!

 

The bolts CHE supplies you with are the ones that hold the bracket in place. You use the Ford bolts for holding in the control arm. Correct?
Ill go crawl under my car while I await a reply and look at mine.

 

Correct and that is exactly how I installed them

 

Yup, mine look just like yours, no worries

 

John Thank You so much for helping me and answering my question.

Very much appreciated.

 

Np. I know the frustration feeling.

 

crawled under the rear tire and checked mine, same thing too. Pics are phone pics, but you get the idea.

 

Thank You also Brian

 

I dunno, didn't seem like a "Smart-*** reply" to me (and I'm not the poster). As an engineer with over 25 years of experience, it seemed like helpful advice. If you want to do what everyone else did, even if it might be uninformed and/or wrong, go ahead and poll the group. If it was me, the first thing I'd do is call CHE... but that's just me. And I'd still follow the "two threads" guideline no matter what CHE said.

PS: For anybody who really wants to know the answers to 99% of the general tech questions encountered when we mod our cars, I would recommend looking at some of the books authored by Carroll Smith, especially his Nuts, Bolts, Fasteners and Plumbing Handbook.
http://www.carrollsmith.com/main.html

 

I was always under the impression that it was the clamping force that actually mattered. I mean sure you dont want to be using only one or two threads, but as long as your bolt is threaded all the way through the nut (or even a thread or two away from portruding through for such a wide nut) and provided you can torque to spec does it really matter wether it came through the nut by 2 threads or a hundred?

Not trying to sound rude at all, just wondering if my logic is flawed here.

 

That is more correct. According to CHE everything is fine here is their reply after i sent them pictures.

 

Mine looks the same also, except that I put the flag nut up top where it came from, and the nut down below, where I could grab it with a wrench as opposed to trying to hold the flag nut.

 

Yeah what a PITA that was. Had to use a open end wrench on it to stop it from spinning. I just installed them the way CHE said to. If I had to do it over I would most likley do it the way you did as well.