building control arms: parts and questions.. please

the lowers mite be, but theres s10 upper balljoints in a yota spindle in gumps truck. truck used to camber realll bad now it barly does cuz the upper was binding.

Originally posted by blazedbowtie82



Thats why I built my own, the balljoint. Those also look like they aren't really the right length Kyle. The threads look like there isnt much left to go.



First, look whose truck it is, second your right they are pulled out too much because they were meant to be used with multi angle adjusters. Not my truck

Yea, I know its Cheezees truck. I don't knof it I would drive it like that though.

hey seth, is this the ball joint i should use you were talking about? http://www.speedwaymotors.com/xq/aspx/display_id.2111/itemNo.BALL+JOINTS/qx/Product.htm

the 91034323 Screw-In Upper Ball Joint
(moog ref - K772 MOOG)?


and this is the sleeve right? http://www.speedwaymotors.com/xq/aspx/display_id.2126/itemNo.BALL+JOINTS/qx/Product.htm

Yea I used the K772 and thats the sleeve. I got my balljoints locally when I worked at a parts store because they were cheaper, but then Speedway screwed me with a minimum order charge. Lol.

i think i am going to order them tonight and get to crackin on them.... i was thinking about using the bushing style knuckles on the toyota shaft for mounting... what do yu think about that? i dont like the look of heims and for some reason they just rub me the wrong way... i think its because they came on those old 4-link bars a while back that were super small and i dunno....

You mean the adjustble bushing ends mounted on the stock cross shaft? That wouldnt really work, they wouldn't be removeable.

And theres nothing wrong with heims. The ones on 4 links may have been cheap. I have Chromoly QA1 kevlar lined heims. I'm happy with them. I think they look clean, and they will allow for castor and camber adjustment without binding like a bushing would. Just MO though.

youll have to machine the cross shafts so a bushing end like a on a 4 link will work.

seth, do you have any more pictures of the way your setup cme out with the heims? also how bad of an idea of is it to make it like the 4 link bushing ends and make tabs for them like a 4 link. ... i mean i know they make them that way all day long but what are your opinions on that type? you are right about the heims having more adjustments and you might be talking me into using them but im just not sure yet ... never used heims.. dont know anything about how they mount etc...simple basic airbag 101 stuff that i just never learned.

Well, the reason I didn't do bushings with tabs was that if the castor needs adjusting, the bushing would want to sit at an angle between the tabs, and would wear the bushing unevenly, or would bind or not travel smoothly. I will email you pictures of my front end.