How To: uca bushings and shaft

Well i was in need of changing my upper control arm bushings and shaft so figured i would take a few pics during the process to share.

First you need to get your control arm off the truck and get it situated in the vice like so.

Then run to the parts store and get the bushing and shaft shift using this number.


This is what all comes in the kit. You get the shaft, 2 bushings, 2 rubber seals, and 2 zerk fittings.


This shows you just how all the threads in the bushings get greased and work properly.(this is the new shaft)


So get your new shaft situated in the vice like so.


Go ahead and put your new rubber seals on.


Make sure to go ahead and throw some red grease on the shaft threads and inside of the bushings.


At this point you need to clean the existing threads out of the control arm itself.


Go ahead and screw your bushings on to the shaft and inside of the control arm at the same time.(tighten the piss out of them.) also screw your zerk fittings in


When your all done you should have something that looks like this.





After everything is done make sure to go ahead and fill the zerk fittings with grease and make sure everything is tight and good to go. When dissasembling the control arms make sure and note where the shims are for alignment purposes. With that being said you may need to get it aligned again once you do this due to the fact that when it was aligned it was aligned with the slop of the bushings.

This is how bad mine was.
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Now enjoy your nice safe slop free ride.




-justin