You can see this spring is nice and straight see this thing in here so it's
all straight, let's see the other side quick
yikes!!!! It's gonna fall out, this thing I guess is rusted off it's supposed to
hold the spring up and down so we got a problem with this whole arm okay so what
I've done basically is I just I put a block of wood here just to lower the
spring down here or below the control arm I should say, our lower control arm I took
the spring out not actually a big deal one bolt 19 millimeter by those sides
this comes out you just lower down with the jack actually if the jack comes
right off this still won't fall so what I did is. This plate here I drilled it
out you can actually see right there's one drill hole there's only two they
were actually holding it so then this plate comes off just like that and then
you can get a new plate from Go_Westy and that new plate will go on like that
and then now we'll put a rubber bumper there, and we'll put this spring back on
and that will fix that'll fix our problem so you can get that replaced so
what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna grind this up I'm gonna clean it so we're
gonna have it nice clean, well and I'll show you what it looks like just before
I should weld it and we're gonna weld it okay we've cleaned it all up here and as
you can see the spring actually I guess indented it right in there so it's
pushed in a bit but that's okay the biggest thing is these two holes here
they're still here those are just drill marks where I drilled it out so I just
cleaned it up, it's never you're never gonna be able to get all the rust off
cuz if you look really closely you can see there's always gonna be rust so your
just gonna wind up just going right through it, so strip off a good layer
just for your weld to take hold and then those two holes that you see there
they're gonna line up with this hole and this
so then you're gonna look through you're gonna want line them up and then this is
just gonna go right on top like that we're gonna weld it around okay now what
else I've done is I did a little score around here so I just took a razor blade
I scored around it so you can actually look, you can see the line there okay so
I got it all welded in there and she actually looks pretty good
she's welded in there so now I'll put the plastic plate on top and then the
spring goes back in and there's our new control arm fix so we saved ourselves
from buying a control arm so we have we have our new plate installed as well
that actually took some por-15 just to kind of protect it it's in there nice
and tight we have our jack underneath we can see where our shocks gotta go back
to spring I've got this what it is is just a rubber plastic type of adapter
that's gonna go over here there we go just like that and then we're gonna put
our spring this piece here goes on the top and you can actually see there's
like an indentation it's mold it's your spring goes a certain way and actually
on one of my previous posts or I I said it was bent it in there or dented in I
think it's supposed to be there for for the original one probably to prevent the
spring from twisting but I'm not 100% sure so noticed that
so we're gonna go ahead and put the spring in there okay so you can see I
just popped the spring in there it's still very loose nothing nothing is
hooked up yet but if you can see up here I'm gonna show you you can still turn
this piece here and it actually locks into where the spring is supposed to go
that's that piece earlier so now what we can do is we can just jack it up even
here with our hand I can just kind of Jack it up and it's gonna push there you
can see it's pushing it up there we make sure it's in there it's getting nice and
tight we'll just continue jacking it up and then we put the shock back in and
there we go all installed there's a new spring sitting nicely on I'm the new pad
there so that's good I'll bolt it up and
that's a good way to save yourself hundreds of dollars because now you
don't have to replace the whole lower control arm