I had a broken connection to the lower control arm about six months ago. I bought a new lower control arm, replaced it, and now six months later it's broken again. Same side (driver's) same location. I never offroad this truck, worst it sees is potholes. Is there something else I need to look at that might be putting more than the usual stress on this connection? I don't want to have to deal with this a third time...

 

sometimes the links are side specific, like there is a right and a left side and have to go on a exact way other wise they are twisted, ive seen it a few times at work, cause i always try to put the new one on the same way i took the broken one off and you can tell it just aint right

 

i would check the bushings in the sway bar. i just wonder if your sway bar is binding up and thats whats breaking them.

 

do you go over speed bumps
If you do and catch it with only one wheel Ding Ding Ding

 

at least their cheap

 

ummm.. you know he is talking about what the end link for the sway bar bolts to on the control arm.. right? and not just the end link?


on a side note, just remove the sway bar, plenty of people have done this before. not a real huge difference in how it will drive.

 

Oops, my bad, yep that sucks