Re: A body lower control arm bushing
[Re: challengermike]
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I see what you are saying, it does tighten it up some but i think my arm is worn to much.I put the arm in a vice and tightened it up and i still can get a small flat head screwdriver tip to fit inbetween the the bushing outter shell and the arm. the outter shell doesnt have a groove in it like its worn. I guess my next question would be is do they repop lower arms or should i be looking for one at a junkyard ?
How many miles on the car , that is sort of a wear point , but it's not a press fit there , A replacement arm is probably in your future , nothing is repeopped .
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Re: A body lower control arm bushing
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07/01/12 10:39 PM
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I see what you are saying, it does tighten it up some but i think my arm is worn to much.I put the arm in a vice and tightened it up and i still can get a small flat head screwdriver tip to fit inbetween the the bushing outter shell and the arm. the outter shell doesnt have a groove in it like its worn. I guess my next question would be is do they repop lower arms or should i be looking for one at a junkyard ?
How many miles on the car , that is sort of a wear point , but it's not a press fit there , A replacement arm is probably in your future , nothing is repeopped .
Im not sure how many miles it really has. The car was turned into a racecar a few owners before me, so the speedo hasnt been hooked up in how long. All i know is the strut rod bushings were so bad that it caused one of the upper control arm mounting points to crack off the frame rail from moving foward and backward so much. Im guessing thats why the lower arm is worn so bad there.
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Re: A body lower control arm bushing
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07/02/12 07:15 AM
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The bushing presses tightly into the hole that it goes into. The part it presses into is made to pivot.
I am truckless..
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Re: A body lower control arm bushing
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The bushing presses tightly into the hole that it goes into. The part it presses into is made to pivot.
Exactly , the thread is title incorrectly , there is noting wrong with the bushing .
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Re: A body lower control arm bushing
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07/02/12 01:35 PM
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Great video Jim .
I was just thinking while watching that if a person wanted to salvage fix the one without the lips one could machine up a couple of rings that slip over the pivots and weld them to the side of the arm .
Sure could...
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Re: A body lower control arm bushing
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07/02/12 10:42 PM
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Great video Jim .
I was just thinking while watching that if a person wanted to salvage fix the one without the lips one could machine up a couple of rings that slip over the pivots and weld them to the side of the arm .
I was thinking the same thing. But finding an arm shouldnt be to hard. I thought about taking a huge washer and hole sawing it out but that seems like a pain.
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Re: A body lower control arm bushing
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07/03/12 10:42 AM
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Great video Jim .
I was just thinking while watching that if a person wanted to salvage fix the one without the lips one could machine up a couple of rings that slip over the pivots and weld them to the side of the arm .
I was thinking the same thing. But finding an arm shouldnt be to hard. I thought about taking a huge washer and hole sawing it out but that seems like a pain.
That would be a pain since it needs to be a specific size on the OD so finding something thick enough and then being able to hole saw it out in the center would be a bear of a task , I have a lathe at work I can use and could whip something out on my lunch break.
Finding an arm shouldn't be too hard , save the swaybar mount off your old arm so you don't restrict your search , plus arms without swaybar tabs should be dirt cheap ...
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