Hey guys I just bought some j&m lower control arms from American muscle to hopefully help out with wheel hop and traction a bit. I am going to be installing them myself and hear its a pretty easy job but does anyone have a link to an install for 99-04? The guides I keep seeing are for 05up and it is a much different install. Any pointers also?? Thanks!
Well the bushings seem to have 2 ends and a spherical piece and the silver piece that goes through it, I assumed the spherical piece goes in the middle but it seems tough to get it in, maybe when I grease it it will just slide in?
youll need to grease the bushings other wise they will break themselves down from the movement from normal driving. the bushings will be a tight fit :yes
So I put the lower control arms today and what a pain it was to get the rear bolt lined up. I took it for a test run and the rear end feels tighter but when I dumped the clutch in first gear there was still a **** ton of wheel hop so I feel disappointed I spent all day on it
One thing I noticed with installing was that no matter how much I tried to get all of the trapped air out from 3 sides of the control arms I couldn't get all the air out but I got most out. This made it a little harder to line them up to mount in the car obviously but I got them I'm and torqued them down and when I torqued them obviously they closed up and they are tight now but you dont think that makes a difference right? Everything is nice and tight since its in and the bushings are tight together because they are torqued tight
On the j&m bushings there is some when making the bushings flush it says in the directions, I don't think it makes a difference ones I crank the bolts toght
Can over tightening the bolts make a difference ? I didn't have a torque wrench so I just used a regular wrench and torqued the bolts pretty tight so they don't come loose, I did this with it jacked up in the air if that makes a difference
I'm going to try and get the air out of the bushings and see if it helps but I want to re grease them but I'm out of grease that came with them. What is a good alternative I can get at an autoparts store??
Hey sorry about bringing this back again but I'm going to tackle this install for a friend this weekend on his 02. I had two jack stands on the axle last time just like you do in the photo. The problem was that when i lowered the control arm with the jack and removed the spring, the axle shifted upwards on the side I was working on because the spring was no longer there to hold it down. It became a pain where I ended up having to remove the shocks and get everything lined up again with a friend. What did I do wrong?
My front control arms won’t install the bushing is causing it not to go in
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