I am in the process of rebuilding my steering linkage and upper suspension arms/bushes and on re-fitting the idler arm (with a new kit) I noticed that when it was cycled to the position of left full lock it did not stop at the stop on the subframe but rested against the positive battery feed to the starter motor. The end connectors were a little distorted and displaced the cables away from the side of the engine by a couple of centimetres.
Neither the squared off area on the arm itself nor...