T350 Scraping on Upper Wishbone on Full Lock

[samastonlongley]

Hi there, wonder if someone can help. I’ve recently been overhauling my suspension on my T350. The car was involved in a slight accident but it was nearly all body work damage. The bodywork has been repaired and is awaiting paint. Now the suspension had a new(to me) top arm fitted which was marked up “Tuscan” (having looked online all the arms seem the same on the T cars) I had all the suspension powder coated and now on full lock the wheel scrapes the top wishbone, quite badly. The car does have some wider wheels fitted has 225/18”spiders on the front and 255/18”spiders on the rears. As of yet I haven’t had any of the suspension set up but that is next on the list which I appreciate could have something to do with the scraping but I can’t help thinking I’m missing something. The car also has protech shocks all round.

Hope someone can help!

[m4tti]

You should be able to verify assembly with this.

[Oneball]

Have you got the rack centralised and both track rod ends screwed on a equal amount?

Does the angle of the wheels look the same on full left lock and full right lock?

[Basil Brush]

The upper wishbone changed on the later cars (Jan 2002 onwards I think) to allow more lock, with the diagonal arm curved instead of straight.

[samastonlongley]

Did some further investigation today and I’m fairly sure I have matching arms which both curved and have then extra holes in. Not sure about the rack being centralised I will have to check by doing the test spoke about on here.

Many thanks