[hiyabradHO]

Chad. What's new?

[TA455HO]

Hi Brad. Going good here. Better now, anyway. How's the car treating you?

I got a call yesterday from the guy that I bought some new NOS lower control arms from and he says they should be here to me by Saturday. They include the ball joints and bushings. I should be able to get this car to roller stage once I install them, although I think I need 2ManyTAs to come compress the front coil springs for me - using nothing but his bare hands...

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[TA455HO]

Lower control arms showed up tonight. They need a little attention and I'm going to replace the bushings in them since they are dry cracking, but they should do the trick. They are sporting the part numbers

6260591
6260592





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[Transamric]

Originally Posted by TA455HO

Lower control arms showed up tonight.



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It looks like the edge of the paint ends in different places. Were these dip painted rather than sprayed? Were the bushings already installed when they were painted?

[TA455HO]

Originally Posted by Transamric

It looks like the edge of the paint ends in different places. Were these dip painted rather than sprayed? Were the bushings already installed when they were painted?

I think these had to have been dipped. You just know GM didn't spend the time masking down in spots like this. And I do think the bushings were installed when it was dipped. Lots of pictures to look at. The bushings are shot and one of the ball joints doesn't look real good and has a slightly different look on the bottom. I've got a set of NOS ball joints that should fit so I plan to carefully extract the one and install another.















Here's the start of the second one.
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Both seem to have come from the same dealership in Los Angeles.

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