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Jeep control arm replacement?

spazzz

spazzz

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So my brother pointed this out on his 1996 grand cherokee.
The front is rusted threw so the rubber bushing is exposed. He is freaking. I told him to chill and drive, till we get it.
It's on the front passenger side.

Anyone familiar with the replacement of these. Would we have to even lift it or just replace as is on ground.
I would imagine I would have to soak the bolts ahead of time. I am wondering if I could even wrench these off in place.
Be nice to sick an impact at it.
 


you need to lift the jeep to get under it for sure. then a breaker bar and a pipe along with some spray evey night till you get the new part, should be a easy swap.

looks like it bottomed out too, may want to bend that edge back in if it dont match the other side.
 
I don't know Scotty there is a crap load of room under there.
When I did his brake line it was almost to easy with the wheels on the ground.

I read some quick looks on some jeep forums and it looks like you can drop them in place/wheels on ground.
As long is there is no tension on them wouldn't it work?
I didn't really spend too much time looking at it but it did look pretty easy ,just two (rusty) bolts a side.
 
its a trailing arm pretty much, it just holds the front axle in place. id hold the body with a jack, just incase it moves with a bolt out. then have at it.

air tools would make the job so easy tho.
 
Soak it alot, ALOT.

Likely the bolt is rusted in place, I'd heat that ****er up with a MAP torch.

You want to bolt that thing in and tighten it with the wheels on the ground.
 


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