Lower Control Arm - rebuild help please.

[Grizz1963]

This is an ongoing saga.

My trucks driver side LCA was mullered so I replaced it woth new rebuild parts and a new arm.

EVERYTHING fitted together slick and perfectly.

The passenger side....... NOPE !!

So after destroying one, I managed to buy another.

So today I cleaned threads, dry fitted the nuts, cross bar etc.

Then started to assemble it, FAIL !!

So disassembled it again and restarted cleaning, scraping threads and test screwing the bits together.

Then another attempt at seassembling the whole thing.......

Tight fit, what can go wrong?



Threads just catching, so time to start tightening in equal measures on both sides.



This is where the poop strikes that fan.

Tightening it to the point of lock in of the nuts...... At this point the drivers side A arm was still moving freely.

Passenger side.... Tight enough that I need to move it up and down by hand.
So then I looked at the gaps in the nuts.

Passenger side still has about 8mm to lock tight, but drivers side which has loose movement only 4mm





Sooooooooo..... Clever guys, rebuilders or frustrated people.....

What have I done wrong??

[ls60apache]

maybe you havnt did anything wrong ,is it possible that shaft is too long?are those aftermarket or used parts? on the lca where the bushing screw in.measure the width there and compare it driver side.maybe lca is squeezed in a bit.