Yes, you can tighten the halves of the LCA around the pivot housing.



BUT there still can be wear between the OD of the pivot housing and the halves of the LCA stampings. Tightening the halves together will not fix that looseness.

I have that problem with my LCA's. I clamped and weded the halves together in the above picture about 16 years ago in 1997. But now there is noticable movement between the pivot housing and LCA stampings.

This is the same set of LCA's as pictured above on the left, just painted black and 16 years later...