Wrong Wishbone

[toolie72 67 1 Cars]

Hihi, needed drivers wishbone-got a pair (from eBay) fitted new poly bushes-fitted drivers, everything hunky dory. Couple of weeks later fitted passenger side-steering wheel moved, strange (dead at centre) steering-didn't like it-took wishbone back off checked against original-seems same size (different casting though-less ribs) put original back on wahay happy again

Anybody got a clue-I thought maybe one was a 309 job but they do look the same size

Okay okay lesson learned eBay etc before you slag me off

Cheers confused paul

[Anthony 1,003]

Generally it's obvious whether it's a 205 or 309 wishbones by the ribbing - 205 wishbones have ribbing, whereas 309 wishbones don't.

 

 

(309 on the left, 205 on the right)

 

That said, I've seen surprisingly large tolerances between wishbones from different suppliers to the point where they've thrown the tracking miles out - you normally need no more than half a turn of the TRE to get the tracking right, but from memory it was something like 5 turns out!