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Rusty's Offroad: Adjustable Control Arms Some Beefy Adjustable Control Arms
There were many brands that will allow you to adjust longer than stock. In fact, all control arm manufacturers designed their arms so that it will adjust longer than stock. However for me, I needed them to be shorter than stock.
JKS manufacturing had a set that I can adjust shorter than stock but the cost was a bit too steep, like twice as expensive than other brands. So I searched and ended up with Rusty's. It is one of the few offroad product manufacturers in the deep south and it was only a state away! I called and Rusty told me he would make me a custom length for the cost of his mass produced control arms. I had the pairs of upper and lower front control arms made right around $350 shipped to my door. I had him made the arm so that I can adjust 1 inch shorter and 2 inch longer than stock, safely. The 3 inches of adjustment is plenty for what I am trying to do.
Tools & Parts Needed Socket Set Breaker Bar Torque Wrench Tape Measure Control Arms from Rusty's along with 4 jam nuts (~$350)
Job Hours 1.5 hour
Procedure
1. First park the jeep and let it cool down to prevent burns as you will be working near the exhaust system.
4. Move on to the passenger side remove the stock arm then install the Rusty's lower control arms for the passenger side.
6. To install the upper control arms, you will have to rotate the pinion side of the axle down to accommodate the shorter length. I used the factory bottle jack on the engine mount on the frame and the axle to rotate. Just be creative with the bottle jack and/or the floor jack. ;) You should be able to rotate the axle without much of grunt work.
7. When you have install all the bolts through the aligned holes, you can finally torque them down. I torqued mine around 100ft-lbs for the lower and 80ft-lbs for the upper control arms. For the cam bolt, use wrench to tighten down the nut, not the bolt to keep the spacer from rotating. You will see what I mean when you are actually do this.
8. Once everything has been torqued down. The jeep was test driven to confirm there is no more "bottom outs" or any vibration! It will eventually get aligned.
If you have any questions or recommendations, please let me know!! Written on 6.8.2006. by Michael |
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