Are my upper control arms unusable now? 1973 Dart.

72bluNblu said

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Nothing wrong with my car bud, no need to work on it right now.

Sorry if my answer wasn't at your level of comprehension. I'll make it simple- bent UCA bad. Use the right tools and stupid things don't happen. A press for a UCA bushing is totally unnecessary, you can make a better tool and do it right for less than $20 and pretty much have zero risk of damaging your 50 year old rusty UCA. But of course, you have to understand what you're trying to accomplish to make that work.

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You simply can't stop pretending to be a bully. Were you bullied growing up? I'm very sorry if you were.
I'm way ahead of you. I already made one of these up from stuff I already had laying around. It worked great removing the rubber bushing and sleeve but left the bushing shell in the arm. Now I need to make a tool to do just that. I've been making my own puller/installer tools for years. I'll figure this one out, unless you have some advice to help me out(hopefully, without the ridicule). Is that what the smaller washers do?