It is done!! New control arms insttalled and working!
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If any of you guys is thinking about changing your control arms yourselves, do it!
I got all 8 front control arms and tie rods from ECS, the kit comes with almost every bolt but the ones for the tie rods and the bolt that holds the shocks to the front lower control arms. Get them separated or make sure you don't break them!
The job is very straight forward other than removing the upper control arms bolt (can be tricky).
In my case I used an air hammer (very useful), torch, hammer, BFH, wood slipping axe, impact drill, a saw and lots of PB blaster.
The driver side came of easy using the impact drill on the nut of the bolt back and forth. (After removing tie rod), the passenger side was a problem. I used all the above tools and nothing, when using the impact drill on the nut of the bolt it snapped right of and the bolt didn't move, so I reattached the nut on the treaded side and tied until the bolt was about 1/4 inch in, using the air hammer on the broken nut side finally got it out.
By the way thanks to all of you guys that helped me out!
I got all 8 front control arms and tie rods from ECS, the kit comes with almost every bolt but the ones for the tie rods and the bolt that holds the shocks to the front lower control arms. Get them separated or make sure you don't break them!
The job is very straight forward other than removing the upper control arms bolt (can be tricky).
In my case I used an air hammer (very useful), torch, hammer, BFH, wood slipping axe, impact drill, a saw and lots of PB blaster.
The driver side came of easy using the impact drill on the nut of the bolt back and forth. (After removing tie rod), the passenger side was a problem. I used all the above tools and nothing, when using the impact drill on the nut of the bolt it snapped right of and the bolt didn't move, so I reattached the nut on the treaded side and tied until the bolt was about 1/4 inch in, using the air hammer on the broken nut side finally got it out.
By the way thanks to all of you guys that helped me out!
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