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Old 02-21-2017, 07:20 PM   #1
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Are my control arms bad?

I just dropped off my control arms at the sand blaster to get cleaned up. But before I go as far as powder coating them or painting them I was wondering if they are still good.

I know these pics aren't a lot to base it off of. But when I removed the control arm shafts, I found that the edges had been eaten into pretty bad.

you can see in the first pic a ribbon of metal. all 4 of them had this to some degree. but this is the worst one.
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Old 02-21-2017, 07:59 PM   #2
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Re: Are my control arms bad?

I seem to remember that happening when I rebuild the front of my 65. I would think you can clean up those edges and use new shafts and caps.
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Old 02-21-2017, 10:21 PM   #3
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Re: Are my control arms bad?

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I seem to remember that happening when I rebuild the front of my 65. I would think you can clean up those edges and use new shafts and caps.
thanks. i have new caps and shafts. wasnt sure if that little bit of metal eaten away would cause the arms not to seat properly and be off or something.
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Old 02-22-2017, 06:01 PM   #4
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Re: Are my control arms bad?

Look at my 61 build thread and you can see when I did mine. Hope it helps.
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