Lower Control Arm Restore rebuild refinish
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2020
- In this video I take a pair of GM 64 thru 72 Front Lower Control arms and restore / rebuild / refinish them.
Includes bushing removal and installs, also includes ball joint removal and install.
The project is completed by powder coating the arms. - Навчання та стиль
Love it! First time seeing this sort of work being done. What a treat!
I had a clunkity klunk issue so I bought a set of control arms. I had the car up, tires off and was ready to change them out when I saw that there were 2 bolts loose on one side and 1 on the other. Just a quick tightening and I would have been done with it all. Since I was half way there and beside me were 2 new Beck Arnley control arms, it was a no brainer. Well, the rest is history and they perform like a champ. Moral of the story is, check for loose bolts before you spend money replacing something that knocks and Klunks.
Good to see a person taking pride in his work
Paying attention to detail you just gave me the incentive to mine over starting on a 72 Elcamino front end. Thanks for sharing you did a professional job
love the shop...a lifetime of work on display...well done.
Awesome video! Very helpful. The “bell” trick listening for cracks was a new one for me! Keep the videos coming!
Always good to see quality work.
Thank You.
very helpful!!!!!!!! i CAN NOT find upper and lower control arms for my 1974 Buick Apollo. this video has saved me time, money, blood, sweat, and tears. i recommend this video and channel to every mechanic now. Thank You SOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!
There's something just so nice about this. I love the feeling of fixing something up.
Much better to fix the old stuff rather than using china stuff.
@@ThrottleStopRacing now I'm working on a mid 80s gm product so that might not always be accurate 😛
Excellent detailed process. Impressive shop and equipment! Thanks for the tutorial! Nice work!
Those arms came out really nice….good job!👍🏿
Thank you.
Nice job!
Thank you very much!
Well done sir. Thank you for sharing. I did not know about the outgassing step prior to powder. Good information
That is an important step
Glad to see you back at it, hope all is well in your part of the world. 🇨🇦
Thanks, getting better.
You did a fantastic job there Sir.
Thank you.
Great tip with the bushing ear support. I was using sockets to brace but will be cutting some half pipes.
I don’t like buying control arms when they can be rebuilt much cheaper.
Great video and great results on your restoration.
Tank you
Great work. Superior attention to detail.
Nice video. Thanks for the learning opportunity.
Thank you
Great video, very informative and great tips
really....you should use ear and eye protection !!!! EXCELLENT VIDEO
great job I wasnt aware there was more to those control arms but now I feel more comfortable
Thank you.
great video!....thanks for sharing.
Darn....the control arms look just like brand new.
Thanks.
Looking good
Thank you very much.
Great job master thanks
Using MOOG... you must really enjoy replacing bushings and ball joints.
Not sure what you mean, are you saying you do not like Moog?
Thanks this helps a lot!! God Bless!!!
Nice Job!
Thanks
excellent work ,which you had a shop in Texas
Great job
Excellent video Thanks.
Thank you.
Buen video gracias 👌🏻
Nice Job Beautiful
Satisfying to watch
Thanks.
Great tutorial. 👍
Thanks very much.
Quality work... not puchu-puchu👍 becoz of that new subcriber here..
Isn't the mounting bar that threads inside the bushings need to be in one side before the last bushing is pressed in? Love the powder coat!!! Thanks.
Cresent whench not chanal locks my dude.... thx great video
1971 Chevy C10, any idea where I can find replacement control arm bushings.
Great video. Thank you
Hello, nice job on those control arms, if you had bend ears at the bushings, how would you correct it?
Use a 12 ton press like he used late in the video and some bracing to fix the bends in the "ears".
Here's a little trick that works if all you have is a cordless drill to clean holes of paint [or whatever] like the size of these bushings. I take a 3 stone brake hone and some drywall sanding screen, and wrap just enough around the first stone to use a paper clip to secure in place. [100 grit to remove paint or 220 to resize metal for a close fit]. Wrap the remainder around the opposite direction of drill rotation and voila: nice, clean, concentric holes. Not machine shop quality obviously, but pretty darn good compared to most anything anyone ever shadetreed. Can this work on machined parts? Yes - I resized a crankshaft sprocket this way before, as the crank snout was ground down to 1.510", missing the 1.490 to 1.495 spec, and I just wasn't going to tear down a recently assembled motor for a machine shop to do the work. Just plain stones [as the tool comes with] would not have worked, as they would have cought in the keyways and shattered or damaged the part - the screen spread the load and kept stones from bouncing. Caveat? I had a micrometer and snap gauges to check my work.
Thank you for taking the time to respond with an alternate method of cleaning the inside of the bushing sockets.
@@ThrottleStopRacing where are you located and what would it cost to get my original rally rims done this way?
@@annabellendad I have stopped doing wheels, sorry
I love the pipe tip, to prevent collapsing the arms when pressing out the bushing. Is that fence pipe of some type or galvanized plumbing pipe?
Just ordinary black iron pipe, shortest length you can buy.
Thank you
How did you get the cross shafts out? Did you cut them?
Just bolts in the lowers, the shafts do come out of the uppers.
Hey there Glen! how's winter been treating ya?
This has been a mild winter so far, only 70 inches of snow so far, we are expecting some cold weather Wednesday (-6 as a high). Good to see someone is still following. Have not posted in a while.
@@ThrottleStopRacing i think about ya every time i look at the load leveler you sent.
@@dzlfreek Happy you could put it to good use. I really appreciated the shout out you did, still looking for the 1000th subscriber
How many coats of powder coat do you use?
Just one coat does the trick. Thanks for the question.
@@ThrottleStopRacing thank you!
How much would you charge me to do my upper & lower control arms left & right for my 70 GTO
I have retired from providing this service.
I need my 1969 oldsmobile delta 88 control arms done.can u help me out.
How much would it cost to do my upper an lower control arms 1969 delta 88?
I am sorry but I do not do this any more.
How much would this cost a shop to do?
Back in the day I would charge $65.00. That would be ridiculous now.
@@ThrottleStopRacing what should I expect to pay
@@sunshinepet $150.00 in labor, plus the parts.
@@ThrottleStopRacing gotta find someone to do it. I have a idea who
@@sunshinepet Not me.
998 point restoration..... .Nothing is perfect.
Very true.
Great work