upper control arm bent with zero miles?

[texastrendz]

i had ekstensive metal works build me a set of tubular arms, upper and lower. the upper a arm is now bent. the upper a arm should not have a lot of weight on it. i do not see how this thing got bent. what should i look for?
i am running 22.5 inch wheels turned down to 22s with the ten hole adapters. is there to much weight on the wheel side, will this cause the a arms to bend? any help would be great. thankx

[draggin86]

pictures would help to see how they are bent.. the material they are made out of would help too! it would take some extreme force to bend some nice tube (correct material for control arms) control arms..

[Shane]

i think i would ask the guy that i paid to make them for me ... but that's just me

[texastrendz]

i think i found my problem, when they designed the upper a arm they did not put enough angle in the ball joint mounting block. when i air up the truck it binds alot. i think the ball joint is winning over the material it is bolted to. this is where it bent. there is a gap under the balljoint where it is tweaked.

[ShowSS12]

I dunno if thats your only problem. I bought some upper and lower cups from them.. I didn't run them b/c they where made out of very i mean very thin metal. I wanna say in the neighbor hood of 18 gauge. Anyhow maybe that part of the problem too then material and bad angles? Oh and I wanna see picks of your dually.

[kev2809]

i would like to see pics of the dually too...i always thought ekstensive was a well known good quality shop? i seen the trucks they build for the shows and they come out damn clean! maybe try giving him a call and they could fix the problem for you...worth a shot

[texastrendz]

Side shot of the paint

[texastrendz]

Inner fenders i am fabbing.




rear wheel

[texastrendz]

The problem!!!!
bags

[texastrendz]

one more

[texastrendz]

better view of the issue at hand.

[smashingchuck]

What the heck is going on with that tie rod?

[texastrendz]

that is done to keep the tie rods in line when suspension is at ride height. no bumpy steer.

[orange71]

Im not one to bad mouth another company but those uppers look horrible

[72hotrodder]

ive seen alot of work done by exstinsive and that does not look like there quality of work. did they also make the upper controll arm mounts? that looks to be were the problem is

[texastrendz]

i was dissapointed in them also. the front end is really a mess. i need to get right. i use to praise ekstensive for the work they do. i am having second thoughts now. i have to get a roll back over here and get it to them to see what the hell is going on, maybe they will fix it.

[N2TRUX]

Who actually did the fab work? Employees come and go at any shop. I would talk to Bill about it.

[kev2809]

the angle doesnt look right on the mounts...

[draggin86]

Yeah dude talk to the owner about that.. that doesnt look safe at all..

[texastrendz]

i dropped the truck off with the wheels, adapters, rolling. said to them, here it is make it work. they built uppers, lowers, control arm towers, and shock mounts. this is what i got. i gotta talk to bill, maybe this one slipped by him. hell i dont know. it does pi$$ me off. i hope he will look at it and fix it and make it right.

[Shane]

so you dropped the truck off ... they did the shoddy work & you still paid them?

did you not check the work they did for you BEFORE you paid?

[N2TRUX]

I'm not trying to defend Bill, but I do know his shop stays busy all the time. I don't know who runs it these days when he travels, but its possible they felt this would work.

Let Bill have his say then respond from there.

[texastrendz]

i had the truck at another shop doing the rear four link, we both agreed to take the truck to ekstensive to do the front since me nor him new nothing about front end geometry at the time. i did not see the truck for a while after he got it back. now i have the truck at my shop and fixing all the screw ups between them both. it was five years ago when i started this project. i have learned a lot since then. let me tell ya watch out at these supposed specialist. you can see what happens.

[texastrendz]

update: had the boys at chaotic customs in houston fix my problem.




they came out real nice.

[8mpg]

So ekstensive (sp?) didnt fix their own work?