- Dec 7, 2011
- 220
With the help of people I decided to replace my front end control arms (upper and lower), upper ball joints and sway bar end links. Actually found a pretty good price from PartsAvatar for the parts (shipping killed RockAuto as an option).
Starting with the driver's side, I had a heck of a time getting everything apart, but with some tools borrowed from my car guy (who isn't doing any work right now due to the pandemic) and a whole pile of penetrant I've finally got it all out and going back in. I had to take the steering knuckle right off to get the UBJ pressed out, so now I'm putting things back together. My LCA isn't going to be great as far as alignment, but the first drive I'll be taking will be to get an alignment done.
I've got the LCA attached to the frame and shock, the Sway Link attached to the bar and LCA, and the Steering Knuckle attached to the LCA and tie rod, all loosely for now. Is there an order best to torque things down to spec? Like should I start with the LCA frame bolts, then move to the nuts that attach it to the other parts? Does it matter at all as long as everything gets torqued to spec?
I will likely have more questions as I go. It was recommended to me that when I attach the UCA to frame I should have the weight on which make sense to me.
Starting with the driver's side, I had a heck of a time getting everything apart, but with some tools borrowed from my car guy (who isn't doing any work right now due to the pandemic) and a whole pile of penetrant I've finally got it all out and going back in. I had to take the steering knuckle right off to get the UBJ pressed out, so now I'm putting things back together. My LCA isn't going to be great as far as alignment, but the first drive I'll be taking will be to get an alignment done.
I've got the LCA attached to the frame and shock, the Sway Link attached to the bar and LCA, and the Steering Knuckle attached to the LCA and tie rod, all loosely for now. Is there an order best to torque things down to spec? Like should I start with the LCA frame bolts, then move to the nuts that attach it to the other parts? Does it matter at all as long as everything gets torqued to spec?
I will likely have more questions as I go. It was recommended to me that when I attach the UCA to frame I should have the weight on which make sense to me.