This is about the best brand you can get: http://shop.advanceautoparts.com/webapp ... 60005_____ This is just for one side of your truck. You may get all your part numbers from Advance Auto Parts website and then check the internet for a better price (amazon.com). I would spend the extra money and get the Moog brand.

 

Do you recommend I change both upper and lower or just do upper and replace the ball joints on the lower arms?

 

If the lower ball joints are replacable, and the control arm is not bent, I'd just replace the ball joint. I would reccomend Moog brand for them as well. Also check the bushings and make sure they are not worn.

 

question, dont the new control arms come with new bushings? Also I can't seem to find lower control arms anywhere all i find are upper. Do you know who makes them? please advise. thank you.

 

I found these: http://www.hendrickgmparts.com/seccat/s ... /19/20090/ they appear to have the bushings installed already.

 

I'm gonna check them out in detail tomorrow and see if the lower arms truly need to be changed, if they aren't broke why fix. If anything i'll order a new ball joint and bushings for the lower arm.

 

900?! You can do the job in your driveway if you want to save some money. I popped my arms off mine today.

 

not bad. did you replace both arms or just the upper?

 

not bad. did you replace both arms or just the upper?

Just the upper. They're held on with some nuts. Arms usually come with the balls pressed on for you. My rough country ones came like that.

 

think I might give it a shot. All the ones I've looked into come with the ball joints attached. For the lower I'm more than likely just changing the ball joint and not the arm. Yours were OEM?

 

think I might give it a shot. All the ones I've looked into come with the ball joints attached. For the lower I'm more than likely just changing the ball joint and not the arm. Yours were OEM?

Yeah, my ball joints were shot.

 

doing it yourself is much cheaper.. u can rent a ball join press/removal tool from autozone will set u back 100bucks to start.. i know ur gonna hate me but duralast ball joints were 30 apeice for my truck.. leave the control arms on the truck when doint it with the manual press. much much easier u do not have to fight to hold the control arm in place.. if u take it off its gonna be a pain holding the control arm and turning the press. i suggest leaving it on and having the truck itself hold the arms while u turn the press .. very simpe to do maybe an hour tops on each side.

 

Oh good ezfix
Is back bumping 6 year old threads to get YouTube hits again

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Yes, but it was a pretty good video. The only thing I would have done differently would be to do the final torque of the control arm to frame bolts after the truck was on the ground (or use a lift jack stand to push the control arm to it's "normal" position). Torqueing them with them in the dropped position is hard on the rubber control bushings because it has them in a bind most of the time.

 

Yep. That is correct. Most lift instructions tell you to do the same

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Yah, digging up an old thread here, but it was an interesting video. Only I would have preferred voice instruction over or in addition to the written instructions. Never been real big on background music for an instructional video....I guess I am old school. Otherwise, good camera work and makes me want to go out and wiggle my control arms.

 

Thanks for the nice feedback!! I will try to remake the video with voiceover and make a note on the arm bushing resting position tightening procedure. Might take me a week or so. The editing process for me takes at least 6-8 hours per video. But I will get it done! Thank you so much!
~shaun

 

Yes, that's why I never do videos. It takes much longer to make them than to do the job.

 

I agree that it is a PIA to do the videos, but they are so much more informative than simple photos. Shaun clearly puts a lot into his and I applaud him for that. It is a big benefit to everyone else. They don't have to be all fancy and edited, but it helps.

And, Shaun, I don't really want to you waste time redoing that Control Arm video. It does it's job perfectly. I was just nit picking. If it had been a crappy video without much value, I wouldn't have even bothered to critique it. But it was informative and good.

The other day a fellow list member PM'ed me with a question on how to do something. I started to write up a description, but after a few sentences, I found that it would clearly be able to run a short video showing exactly what I was trying to say in 10,000 words. Even a few pictures would not have been able to say what the 20 second video said.