I noticed a lot of people tell people who buy LT1 F-Bods to watch out for tire wear in the front. well my 96 started eating the tires in the front on the outside and after 2 alignments, still there! After removing the engine and powerwashing the engine bay I descovered a broken weld on the engine cradle! the bracket that the front of the passenger LCA bolts to failed. the factory weld completely missed the bracket! and it eventually broke the other side so the LCA could move at lease 1 inch either way but when the car was pointed straight and stopped the car would align back!?!?!? If anyone has a tirewear problem, Please look at your engine cradle! and let me know

 

Not related but do have a pics of your HUD?

 

I can take some and mail em and you can go to www.lingenfelter.com

I sorta recessed them into the dash, they look cool

 

Oh duh.. I missed the LPE part. Thanks.

 

i have a problem with tirewear on the front outside corners of the tires....but that from taking corners at 30 MPH then stompin the gas to bring the back end around.

 

did your car sometime seem llike it didnt know which way it wanted to pull and kinda feel like it was flooting as well

 

Yup Exactly and the outside of the sires looked like it was grinded down but the insides looked great

 

my car pulls left n right like it dont know what it wants to do, i think it the bushin inside the steerin shaft and i need an alignment, can u post pics of this broken weld ?? so i know where to look on mine. thanks

 

My car pulls mean to the right. I dunno why, I had an alignment, and also replaced the calipers and proportioning valve, because it pulls real hard during braking. I just can`t figure out what it is. Could ya be more discriptive about witch weld to look at? My car also has that "floating"feeling.

 

The bracket where the Lower Conrol arm mounts in the front where it's throughbolted that bracket is welded to the crossmember it broke in the front the fctory weld completely missed the joint the only thing that kept in place was the other side, but over time it actually cracked the K Member and then came loose.

 

Same problem with floating/pulling left and right!Thanks for telling us your situation!I wanna check but it's to D@mn cold out....

 

From this diagrahm :

http://www.afrashteh.com/front-suspension.jpg

what part are you talking about?

-Alex

 

bolt 19 goes into the bracket that broke on that picture

Actually there is a line where the weld should be!!!!

 

Could you clarify? Which # bracket? Or do you mean #19 broke? Everything in the picture is #erd..

 

****...so..possible solutions would be : Pull motor and reweld, or would going with a Tubluar front end elminate this problem ?