It's a 98 GT 5 speed that I bought with Maximum Motorspots Heavy Duty Lower Control Arms already installed. After a year of hard launches the poly bushing on the chassis end of the LCA shred. When I spoke to Maximum and ordered replacement poly bushings he said it would happen again and suggested i go with their Extreme Duty LCA's because they have the non-poly bushings at both ends. Well he was right...at about the year mark the replacement set of poly bushings shred also.

I asked on another forum if my only option was to go with LCA's that had spherical bushings at both ends. I got a couple replies that said I should just replace the poly with spherical bushings instead of completely new control arms. Well I spent quite a bit of time googling to find replacement spherical lower control arm bushings and cannot find a source…nor could the posters that suggested it point me to a source...do they exist? If so, can someone please tell me where I can find them!

 

http://www.uprproducts.com/shopping/shopexd.asp?id=117

The description states that it's for upper control arms. You may want to call UPR and see if these will work with the LCAs or if they offer anything for the LCAs.

 

Thanks...i know Steeda markets some upper shpericals just like this also. It won't hurt to call and ask about lowers.

 

Well, reading the description of MM's extreme duty arms, you are best to buy them. If you go spherical at both ends, there's nothing to keep the arm from twisting, in which the MM arms have bumpers built in to fix this. However, if you have coil-overs out back, give them a call again and tell them you need a replacement spherical bushing. I can't imagine them not having replacement parts since they do go bad after a while. However, only do that if you have coil-overs. Get the extreme duty arms if you have stock location springs.

 

Good point on the twisting! Oh well, I was trying to get away as cheap as possible but i should have known better.