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<blockquote data-quote="Snagmaster" data-source="post: 15462937" data-attributes="member: 170795"><p>When I bought the upper and lower control arms for my vert the uppers were new Whiteline and the lowers are Edelbrock/Hotchkis that have been on at least three cars now.</p><p></p><p>The bushings were still like new and are greasable but were taken apart, cleaned and inspected before installation.</p><p></p><p>I noticed esp on the uppers at the diff that the bolts weren't quite as long as they needed to be due to the arms ears not even touching the new poly bushings, when torqued the nuts were barely past the last two threads on the bolt.</p><p></p><p>I took a factory bolt to compare and bought extra length shouldered bolts and used a pair of nylock nuts on each bolt, this way I could close any gap between the metal ears on every mount but torqued the nuts against each other to the factory specs.</p><p></p><p>It took a little dialing in but now everything is tight and since the fasteners hold the clamping force in the nuts the suspension actually articulates with no binding using plain poly bushings.</p><p></p><p>There's is around 40 ft lbs on each bolt to take up what little space there was between the arms and mounts themselves but I get no noise or movement in the suspension now, you can't lubricate the upper arms but they're not binding and I've had no issues so far.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snagmaster, post: 15462937, member: 170795"] When I bought the upper and lower control arms for my vert the uppers were new Whiteline and the lowers are Edelbrock/Hotchkis that have been on at least three cars now. The bushings were still like new and are greasable but were taken apart, cleaned and inspected before installation. I noticed esp on the uppers at the diff that the bolts weren't quite as long as they needed to be due to the arms ears not even touching the new poly bushings, when torqued the nuts were barely past the last two threads on the bolt. I took a factory bolt to compare and bought extra length shouldered bolts and used a pair of nylock nuts on each bolt, this way I could close any gap between the metal ears on every mount but torqued the nuts against each other to the factory specs. It took a little dialing in but now everything is tight and since the fasteners hold the clamping force in the nuts the suspension actually articulates with no binding using plain poly bushings. There's is around 40 ft lbs on each bolt to take up what little space there was between the arms and mounts themselves but I get no noise or movement in the suspension now, you can't lubricate the upper arms but they're not binding and I've had no issues so far. [/QUOTE]
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