Is my lower control arm toast? With Pictures!
Looking good!
Looks like you tightened it up a bit too like per the youtube video by jim lusk. I found that when I added the stiffening plates I still had some play between the halves of the control arm at the torsion bar hex/lever, so I add an additional strap to keep the ends from spreading apart any. The stiffening plate helps a bunch, but I was surprised how much flex there still was between the halves at the end. The strap takes care of that extra play. You just have to make sure the strap doesn't interfere with lever.
Here you can see the LCA clamped in a vice to tighten up and hold the tolerances on the lever. No, I didn't weld this with the bushing installed.
And here it is installed on the car
Looking good!
Looks like you tightened it up a bit too like per the youtube video by jim lusk. I found that when I added the stiffening plates I still had some play between the halves of the control arm at the torsion bar hex/lever, so I add an additional strap to keep the ends from spreading apart any. The stiffening plate helps a bunch, but I was surprised how much flex there still was between the halves at the end. The strap takes care of that extra play. You just have to make sure the strap doesn't interfere with lever.
Here you can see the LCA clamped in a vice to tighten up and hold the tolerances on the lever. No, I didn't weld this with the bushing installed.
And here it is installed on the car