After reading this thread, I went out and actually measured my car, and sure enough, the drivers side was shifted forward 1/2 inch. I put the rear of the car on jackstands, put my hydraulic jack under the rear axle. The then dropped the lca's and loosened the all the relo bracket bolts on both sides. At that point I realized there was a slight amount of play on both sides. I shifted the passenger side bracket all the way to the rear and the drivers side all the way to the front and tightened everything back down. After putting it all back together and setting it on the ground, the rear axle measures perfectly square. Kind of a pain in the ass but certainly worth the effort. Oddly enough my steering wheel never seemed crooked when the car was going straight, but the rear definitely wasn't square. Also, when I installed them to begin with, I never noticed that there was any play. Oh well, live and learn. Thanks to Kelly at BMR for the write-up on how the fix this.
2013 gt500... passenger side is a half in back, or the drivers side is a half in forward... Bmr relocation brackets. I knew it was pulling to the right. Thank the gods I found this thread. Going to put up on stand and loosen passenger side and push it back. Will post back in the thread after. If it's fixed they are being welded
BMR and other manufacturers should really add that into the install instructions. However, if they start to shift in a few weeks , they cant really advertise and sell them as bolt-in brackets.:nono:
Kelly, any thoughts about the brackets shifting after a few weeks?
If you install them at the rear most position, why would they shift?
The force of the acceleration would push on them, no?
I would assume they will shift back if anything?
Kelly said to adjust the pass side only. The pass side is further back than the drivers side, so pushing it(pass side) all the way back aint gonna fix it.
Glad the che brakets don't have these issues
Good stuff. I dont have your brackets, but this type of testing and revision on your part might make me get them if I cant get mine to work. I really dont feel that getting adjustable lca's is the proper solution to this issue.
When will the revised sets be shipping?
Kelly rocks! :rockon:
Just got mine on recently and checked them(after reading this thread). After a few passes at the track they are dead on.
Thank you for your input 04compgt
I am starting to feel very confident that the reason some people's are slightly off, is due to the position of the damper weight retaining nut that is installed/welded to the factory axle, from the factory. It definitely makes sense, as Ford really has no reason to make that nut location precise, simply due to the damper weights not needing to be perfectly aligned with anything, in particular.
That being said, we are still working hard on our end to get everything figured out, and possibly have options for people who have this issue.
Like mentioned, there is a "little" play where the BMR Bracket mounts to the damper weight bolt-hole, and this is typically enough to get everything squared up.
Until next time....
Side. Where the donkey-balls are.Is the damper weight hole the one on the back of the stock brackets?