Replacing Control Arms?

[Prowelder]

Hey everyone,I have a new set of Top Gunz control arms coming in for my truck and hopefully will be installing them tomorrow. Does anyone have any tips or tricks on doing it?:shrug:Thanks,Winslow

[Wild and Free]

Do one at a time otherwise you will fight them back in if the axle pivots ect. Soak up the bolts pretty good with penetrating oil as they can be a bearcat to get loose and out some times have a torch handy to heat them if they are stuborn. If you have acess to 90 degree grease zerks get them as it is a pain to grease them with the straights they come with "I have a set of these on my 02, thats why I know these things" I have to grease mine with a 90 degree jerk adapter which is a pain.

[Prowelder]

Do one at a time otherwise you will fight them back in if the axle pivots ect. Soak up the bolts pretty good with penetrating oil as they can be a bearcat to get loose and out some times have a torch handy to heat them if they are stuborn. If you have acess to 90 degree grease zerks get them as it is a pain to grease them with the straights they come with "I have a set of these on my 02, thats why I know these things" I have to grease mine with a 90 degree jerk adapter which is a pain.

Did you just support the truck with jack stands and the axle with a jack?

I've got both a torch and an impact gun that I plan to use. So hopefully that will make it a little easier.

Do you happen to remember what size the zerts are? The 90* ones sound like a good and would be cheap to make maintenance easier.

--- Update to the previous post...

Also one more question, where do you have you caster eccentric set at?

Plus I just went out and sprayed some PB Blaster on the bolts. Good tip, for some reason just slipped my mind!

[Prowelder]

Some pictures:

Well these are too short, they sent me stock length ones....

New jack stands I just bought!

Jack stand under the frame!

Top and bottom are out.

This stuff helps but I still ended up twisting off my front lower bolt... Going to have to call a dealer tomorrow and see what they can find!

Done for the night and week really until they ship me the new ones.

[98whitelightnin]

Those look good, would have been nice if they were right.:banghead: I replaced my bushings a few years back and it wasnt to bad, would have been nice to just replace the whole arms but I didnt want to spend the money. I set the caster positive as much as I could and it drives alot better than before.

[Prowelder]

Those look good, would have been nice if they were right.:banghead: I replaced my bushings a few years back and it wasnt to bad, would have been nice to just replace the whole arms but I didnt want to spend the money. I set the caster positive as much as I could and it drives alot better than before.

Yeah the reason I went with them is to keep my 35s from rubbing the fenders! I sure wish they were right though!!:banghead: