Pitman arm hits gbody SLIC in RH turn

[jbaker]

Anyone run into this and or have a solution?
The Intercooler is perfectly centered in the car and parallel to the intercooler fan. Turbo aligns perfect.
Basically it is where it needs to be.
Car has 30k miles on it so I'm not suspecting the engine mounts to be bad.
Looks like I need around .75-1.00 to hit steering stop and clear Intercooler.
Thanks, Jeremy.

 

[1KWIKSIX]

Anyone run into this and or have a solution?
The Intercooler is perfectly centered in the car and parallel to the intercooler fan. Turbo aligns perfect.
Basically it is where it needs to be.
Car has 30k miles on it so I'm not suspecting the engine mounts to be bad.
Looks like I need around .75-1.00 to hit steering stop and clear Intercooler.
Thanks, Jeremy.

Hi Jeremy,

Don't know why it's hitting, believe many other members are running the same intercooler without issue. Maybe you can post a few pics ?
I've got Precisions SLIC and no issues here.

Good Luck.....with the help of others on the board, I'm sure you'll figure it out.

dave

 

[jbaker]

ttt

 

[Turbo6Smackdown]

I was doin' driver's side poly motor mount yesterday, and noticed my pitman arm is smacking my intercooler. Again, just like everyone else, I checked everything and it's all right. There doesn't seem to be a real solution for this. The intercooler only goes in one way, and my motor mounts are good to go. What I'm saying is that it's not even close, there's no way around this. I guess I'm asking is there any down side to this lol? Throw a hard rubber bumper on the pitman arm and call it good? What do you guys think. I can't be the only one that this is happening to. There's no way our Buicks vary this much. That would be like 2 full inches of difference from car to car.

 

[Raeban]

Mine hits too. I sanded off the casting mark on the pitman arm, shifted the intercooler as far over as I could go, and massaged a little dent in the exact location to clear mine up.

 

[Turbo6Smackdown]

Yea, I'm going to screw with mine a little too for clearance. It's not bad though. It's only limiting about 4 degrees or so of my steering wheel so I'm fine, I just gotta watch it.

 

[earlbrown]

I guess a good shove on he DS bracket might get you away from the steering arm.

On mine it doesn't hit the steering, but I had to get a 6" hose to be able to connect the up-pipe to the throttle body and different clamps that actually fit the couplers.