01 Sleeperado
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Anyone have trouble finding bushing for their lower control arms for 2000-06 HD models? Depending on the parts store they can either find one that’s too short and don’t fit or they can’t find them at all. They can sell me an entire new control arm with the bushings in it, but I just want the damn bushings. Anyone ran into this in the past?? Aftermarket recommendations?? Amazon shows them but I don’t trust the quality of the cheap Chinese plastic/rubber.
A little back story, the truck is a 2001 1500HD with 220K miles and it’s in damn nice shape. I put a new set of tires on and have taken it by les schwab’s 3 different times to get an alignment done. Every time their answer was ‘oh the pitman arm’ or ‘oh the ball joint’ and they wouldn’t align it even though I said just get it close.
Anyway, I decided fine I’ll just rebuild the front end, new ball joints, tie rods, bushings, steering arm, ect. Taking the truck apart, every component has felt damn tight, no play, no nothing. Worst think I can say is that one of the upper ball joints had a small hole in the grease boot. But finding these damn control arm bushings has been a pain in the ass. Now that I’m 1000$ into basically re doing the front end for fun it would have been cheaper just to buy 3 sets of craigslist tires and chew them up with the poor alignment. I just can’t believe that it's so hard to find bushings because it's the same busing for 1500HD, 2500 and 3500 of 6 years.
A little back story, the truck is a 2001 1500HD with 220K miles and it’s in damn nice shape. I put a new set of tires on and have taken it by les schwab’s 3 different times to get an alignment done. Every time their answer was ‘oh the pitman arm’ or ‘oh the ball joint’ and they wouldn’t align it even though I said just get it close.
Anyway, I decided fine I’ll just rebuild the front end, new ball joints, tie rods, bushings, steering arm, ect. Taking the truck apart, every component has felt damn tight, no play, no nothing. Worst think I can say is that one of the upper ball joints had a small hole in the grease boot. But finding these damn control arm bushings has been a pain in the ass. Now that I’m 1000$ into basically re doing the front end for fun it would have been cheaper just to buy 3 sets of craigslist tires and chew them up with the poor alignment. I just can’t believe that it's so hard to find bushings because it's the same busing for 1500HD, 2500 and 3500 of 6 years.
