jr50rider

Hey guys, i bought upper (UPR) / lower (Adjustable Weight Jacker) control arm that are due to arrive Friday. any tips or tricks to installing them? thanks.

smythge

In most cases you have to drop the exhaust to get to all the bolts other wise it's pretty straight forward, the only problem I had was with the lower control arm bolts they were seized to the sleeves, a couple days before I would spray everything down with pb-blaster.

jr50rider

thanks for the info. i was hoping not to deal with the exhaust, but looking at the upper mounting bolts, it looks that way. figures, i just put the exhaust on recently. atleast i know how it comes off.

WannaBeGearHead

If the bolts aren't seized in the bushings it will be very easy. LCAs are 4 bolts and 4 nuts and both are off. I unfortunately had to take mine to a shop because my passenger side bolt on the chassis side would not come off. I tried getting an angle grinder up there and tried melting it but nothing worked.

smythge

When I switched the stock LCAs all four of the bolts were siezed, had to cut them with a sawzall when that didn't work I broke out the plasma cutter.

WannaBeGearHead

Ya I wish I would have had a plasma cutter lying around the garage. Would have come in handy then.

joeybutts

I was able to install all with the exhaust intact. The only part that was tough on my car was getting the upper control arm fronts into position. Took a little persuading to get them in there and lined up. Other than that is pretty easy. Thankfully I didn't need any air tools/plasma rifles/carpet bombs to get my bolts/nuts out.

jr50rider

my car has 50k on it, so i am hoping the bolts are not to rusty. i am going to spray them a few times before weekend. the bottom arms look to be fairly easy. atleast out of the upper / lowers.

smythge

If you can get the bolts out the rest is easy, I just swithced my lowers took me less than an hour.

jr50rider

Did you notice a difference in handling with just the lowers installed?