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Old 10-29-2006, 02:02 AM
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theres a thread on this in the stickies sir.
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Old 10-29-2006, 02:26 AM
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Default Upper/ Lower control arms install.........

My car will be in the garage for the next 5 months so im going to be doing some work. How much of a job is it to do the U/L control arms? anyone wanna give me a quick how to?.....I also want to swap back in my stock rear springs. the H&R sports are too damn low....this is my 2002 GT btw
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Old 10-29-2006, 08:48 AM
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It's really not that hard, but takes up some time. You'll need a lift or stands and a floor jack. I took my time and did it in 5 hours, but I went really slow. I recommend doing one arm at a time starting with the uppers. The lowers can suck due to the forward mount bolt. Tricky if you don't remove/loosen the cat back.

All in all, it was not too bad, but I did have a lift. Definitely worth the effort.
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Old 10-29-2006, 01:51 PM
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Me any my buddy put mine on in about 2 hours and thats with my driving around in between messin around. No lift, but we had 3 jacks. u will need 2 to do it on the garage floor. I only did lower so u should do uppers first most likely. Its pretty straightforward, the tricky part is u need to put a jack under the diff (NOT the round part!!!!, up on the flat spot towards the driveshaft). you will have to jack it up to tilt it a bit to enable you to get the control arms front bolts back in. I didnt see why until I did the install and then It was obvious what we had to do haha.
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Old 10-29-2006, 02:10 PM
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If you drop the cat-back, it makes it alot easier to remove the front bolts that hold the lower arms...
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Old 10-29-2006, 04:35 PM
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+1 for doing one at a time. prob neet 2 jacks. Like everyone said the front bolts on the lowers are a pita, but its not to bad of a install. it helps to have somone to help also
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Old 10-29-2006, 05:57 PM
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It's easy the second time around i'll tell you that!!!!! the first time will take you a while, but it's actually pretty easy!


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Old 10-29-2006, 11:44 PM
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so is my car designed completely different or does it take 2 ppl or what... but no bolts whatsoever were hard at all to get to when I did my install
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