changing control arms

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03-28-2008, 04:25 PM

whammer33024

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changing control arms

i'm hopefully going to be changing the rear control arms on my car tomorrow and i also bought the relocation brackets to go along with them. is it a pretty hard job or fairly simple? will i have to contend with the springs at all? just wondering what i'm getting into and how hard its going to be. thanks guys!

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03-28-2008, 04:56 PM

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buy new hardened bolts and sawzall the existing ones. it will be a piece of cake if you do that.

You will see why soon enough, i spent all day trying to get mine out before it met the power tool.

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03-28-2008, 05:08 PM

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yeah the stock bolts are hard to get out but it took me like 2 hours to switch them out.

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03-28-2008, 05:13 PM

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i had no problems doing mine but i had air so maybe that helped. took me less than 30 mins. if you put the rear on ramps or your stands on the axle tubes it will help as well.