Would have been nice to know that the Strange S-Series iron 9" center section will not fit on a Currie 82-02 housing with torque arm mount. I just randomly mocked it up to clean some stuff off my bench when I noticed this:





The S-Series cases ribs are directly interfering with the torque arm mount. It's the rib between 2 and 3 o'clock:


On the the Pro Iron case I don't think I'll have that issue. I just wish I'd known about this before I bought the center.....According to Currie, they do not know of any center section that does not require clearancing. DAMN! I'm gonna stop by Strange today and mock up a pro iron and see what it looks like.

 

Didn't fit with my factory center section either. I just did a little grinding on the mount and all is good in the world. Looks like you'd have to do a bit too much to make it fit :/

 

Yeah a lot more. Think I should do it?

 

Back in the day (2002), I had clearanced the mount around the stud, and the rib around the mount.. Didn't want to take too much off of either.. YMMV

 

This is why you can't mix and match different manufacturers.

 

Well I clearanced the center today making sure to not leave and sharp points or angles, then the torque arm won't mount with the housing bolted in. HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I'm very familiar the hot-rodding way of making things fit when they weren't supposed to, I'd just like something about the swap to go well....Pics to follow. Gotta catch the fight now.

 

why did you go with currie when moser is just about as cheap and has a 100% bolt in housing and torque arm mount?

 

I have a moser with a strange s-series and I had to notch the center section as well. No biggie.

 

The torque arm will mount with the housing in, done it a few times.

xpndbl3, I personally went with Currie because the housing doesn't look like it had mounts that were made from cut offs out of the scrap bin. Currie has factory looking mounts. Yeah there were a few small road blocks but you should really expect that with aftermarket stuff. "Direct bolt-in" is rarely the case for a lot of things.

 

Im using a moser rear and had to grind a few aluminum case ribs and space the mount out almost 1/8" for clearance. I used this rear because the TQ mount is waaay beefier looking than the currie. On the other hand I like curries factory looking suspension mounts.. If you look at the pic below you'll see (other than the trans fluid covered undercoating) the 2 washers i put between the TQmount and housing.. And yes thats a 4th gen V6 rear swaybar. I use it on the street. I remove the front bar and install the factory 3rdgen WS6 rear bar when I hit the 1/4...

 

Man I've ****ing had it with this Currie housing. The torque arm mount ISN'T EVEN CLOSE!!!!! I've a Jegster adjustable torque arm, and here is it new on my stock 10 bolt. Notice the proper fit and clearance all around?!?!:



Here it is today with the Currie 9":



WTF is going on?!?

 

Because I found a housing/center/axles/brakes local and affordable. Got a detroit locker and 4.57 gears for under $320 combined, so I was looking pretty good........................until all this **** started happening!

 

that all blows.

if it makes you feel any better, the jegster TA mount on my stock 10bolt didnt clear the floor for **** either, so i made a different mount and tossed the jegster one in the scrap heap.

is you currie housing centered in the car in that pic?

 

It sure is. I mean all the suspension components are connected. Founders panhard/LCA's, springs, shocks.

See but the Jegster sit fine with my stock rear, so I've no idea what's going on! I've searched and searched and haven't found anyone with an issue like this yet!!!!

I just want to drive my car!!! Setting up the 3rd member was tomorrow, but not till this is sorted out. I can't even begin to imagine how this can be fixed.......

 

Here's some with the bare center on:

 

For what it's worth, there are fitment issues all around. A Dana 44 and a BMR adjustable torque arm make contact with the tunnel right at the forward bolt mount. (Actually punched a hole in the floor on a deep compression). I had to add about 3/8" rear axle bias towards the passenger side for a little more clearence.

 

I could deal with buying an adj panhard bar for a 3/8" adjustment..........but I'm looking at 3-4"!!!! Somethings got to be wrong here! Someone please tell me I'm going something wrong here.....

 

Will an adjustable bar adjust that far?

edit: I dropped the panhard bar just to see how much movement the housing has side to side, and it's only 1.5" max.........not nearly enough. wtf do I do now?

 

I know that I have totally different components moser 9"/spohn tq arm,but the spohn tq arm has two sets of holes one set for stock application's and one set an inch over just for 9" housings,this may be part of your problem. Even with that I still needed to grind tq arm bracket and mallet massage the underbody for total unobstructed suspension travel. Also pull out your coil springs so you can see if you have clearance upon full compression of the rear suspension when you get your current issues rectified. I didn't understand how I picked the car off the jack stands without hitting the bump stops but it was the tq arm bracket hitting and picking up the car.

 

Maybe give Jegs a call and see if they have 2 mounts for the Jegster TQ arm. Some do, one for stock arms and rears and another for the 9"..
It almost looks like you could flip the mount over, cut and move the TQ arm box w cross bolts down..

 

Yup, I had this issue also. Check with Jegs as mentioned for another plate. My Spohn arm was an early version so I had to buy a new plate with the 9" holes.

 

Thanks. I'm going to rebuild the torque arm bracket so that it sits directly in front of the Currie mount. Won't be too difficult, but I'm going to set up my pinion first so there won't be any clearance issues.

 

A kind third gen owner sent me this.........exactly what It should look like! Notice how the torque arm faces directly in front of the mount/bolts! Exactly what I'll be doing. Thanks Derrick!

 

So after a full Saturday of work, here's what I've some up with. I fabricated a 1/4" torque arm bracket that relocated the arms position aprox 3" to the passenger side. I set up my pinion preload so that I'd be able to mock up the center section on the housing and design around the yoke.

 

there is some extra material on that you can trim off when its welded up, but it looks like a step in the right direction to me!

 

Here's everything done:

 

The torque arm is for sale now btw, but not listed in the classifieds yet. $250. Includes the custom mount, arm, tunnel plate, bolts. $250

 

Seriously curious why none of you are just taking a big hammer to the offending bits of the floor pan?

 

Well in my case the problem was way beyond the fix of a hammer because the torque arm was pointing at the floor. Otherwise I might have.

 

PM sent

 

Currie is in my back yard and I'm here to tell you they suck.
Nasty attitude.

I went with a Strange 12 bolt, dropped right in and hooked up like stock.

After talking to them I made up my mind, it was an easy choice.

 

Well Strange Engineering is literally half a mile from MY house!

 

i have a moser 9inch and tried that jegster torque arm ran into the same problem just ended up selling it and put my factory in for now till I decided what other one I want

 

currie 9" and Ladder bars for me. fits like a glove...

 

but even i was bit by the sphon parts...(not fitting with GM parts)tie rods to larg to work with their bolt in K member...

but its the lack of they dont give a rats ***..they got your money...