off set upper control arm bushings worth it???

needsaresto said

They should have looked at the homemade tool thread first,lol!! Super good tool there for removing the bushings.

I agree with you on the durability of stock susp components. I remember a story about Dodge taking thier new t bar susp car out to a farmers freshly plowed field and driving it across the furrows at 70+ mph. Not a thing broke in that susp. I think that story might have been printed in an old chrysler power mag. It took place in the 1930's.

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I wanna see these new sport cars pull that off, in fact any new cars.

My arm rip open. I do recall the car doing a high speed U turn on a freeway, car dug in to the dirt turn around great--dirt turn arounds can take higher speeds cause the tires wedge in to the dirt..like everything seem fine but then I notice a little pull, was shock seeing the arm rip almost open ....now 2 year later my other rebuild control arm has some play--not sure in the bushings or ball joint but the SPC arm is tight and smooth bouncing up and down.

High speed braking can kill those stock arms also--but yeah maybe not with a lightweight A body--unless U had 6 high school buddies in the car with U like back when the cars were new..but then they were 100 rust and stress free..these parts are getting old guys, just like us. Steel can lose its strength from the minor flexing over 30-40 years.

I do hear U about rough handling, I never trusted that shop again with any of my stuff. I don't know how they got the bushings and ball joint out.