Can I run like this for a short, babied amount of time? I snapped mine and I have a stock one about 90 miles away. Will it damage anything if I drive it very softly without a torque arm for that distance?

 

No, you can not, you will damage things....

 

DITTO! Don't drive car, very dangerous

 

Extremely bad idea. The torque arm controls the vertical motion of the rear keeping it relative to the rest of the car. You NEED your torque arm.

Find someone to drive you 90 miles, or have it shipped, if you don't want to damage other things.

 

I would think the first thing that would happen is you would snap your driveshaft, among other things I'm pretty sure. There would be nothing to keep the rear aligned. Not good.

 

Yup, to further beat a dead horse, you can not run with the factory-style LCAs and no torque arm...the rear will spin on you.

 

>If you decide to do it ... take some pics so we can see what the damage may be .
Do what "RamAir95TA" suggests "Find someone to drive you 90 miles, or have it shipped, if you don't want to damage other things."

 

I finally convinced a friend to drive it up to me. Cost me dinner for me, him, and his girlfriend, but at least I got it up here!!!! Putting on a torque arm by yourself in almost dark with 2 everclear margaritas in you isn't as enjoyable as it may sound.

 

No it doesn't. If ANYTHING did that you'd have aa solid-suspension... no wheel travel.

 

Um ya it does. The main thing it controls is the pinion angle, hence the adjustment on most aftermarket t/as.

without a torque arm, the yoke shifts down and points to the ground. The torque arm supports that and controls the vertical movement of the axle

 

Wise choice. It is possible to run these cars w/o a torque arm, but you have to do some work. The first generation SSM Lift bars allowed you to eliminate the torque arm on 3rd gens. That was especially handy when running a 9" (which has no T/A mount).

 

weird. my 9" has a torque arm mount

 

9 inches made for our cars have the TA mount. I think he's talking about fitting an old 9 inch.

 

no it doesn't.

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The main thing it controls is the pinion angle, hence the adjustment on most aftermarket t/as.

without a torque arm, the yoke shifts down and points to the ground.

Now you got it.

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The torque arm supports that and controls the vertical movement of the axle

<sigh> so close...

How exactly do you claim the verticle motion of the AXLE has anything to do with the pinion angle?

The torque arm is designed to maintain pinion angle by preventing ROTATION of the rear end housing... while NOT restricting verticle motion of the rear end (and the axles inside it). If verticle-motion was restrained you'd have no reason for springs and shocks.

 

" Yep... most have bosses that a intermediate-bracket bolts to, then the TA mounts to the bracket. At least that's how the Moser 9" works.