51 chevy 3100 5 window build

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Originally Posted by 99 to Life

If you are on a budget just keep the stock ones, but I'd rebush them, by the time you spend loot on poly bushings and the time, you could have had the tubulars.

its true, I replace the uppers and lowers complete, meaning new uppers and lowers that come with balljoints bushings and crosshafts installed, on every project s10 I work on. I only use moog (with the gusher bushings) or ac delco and they are about 70 ea shipped. You can buy the bushings and balljoints for less but replacing the bushings is a bear of a job, usually I end up burning the bushings out and cutting the shell to free the cross shaft.

the uppers have a rough life, if the shaft is crooked in the bushing at all you will have a terrible head shake under braking and the truck will wander around while driving.

There is a smileys racing here in town and they stock those same racing arms, might check close to you. anything listed for "g-body" or "g-body metric" will fit the S10.