Need Ball joints and control arm bushings pressed

[camshaftgsxr]

WTF are you talking about?

Control arms don't "bend over time" and i would much rather keep my original BMW arms than run some arms made who knows where to someone else's standards. Grab some OEM lemforder joints and press them in.

Can't get the control arm into the CAB ? You're not trying hard enough.

OP, any machine shop or decent mechanics shop should be able to do this for you. It is not a big deal.

bullshit they don't, both control arms had flexed over time to the point where akg poly bushings wouldn't allow the lollipop to bolt back into the chassis, new control arms went in without a hitch. and before you say it, no the car had never been wrecked. maybe flexing your oem rubber bushings back into the factory mounting points works for you but that wont work for akg poly bushings. and on top of that the control arms that came off of my car (still had them in the scrap pile) measured differently from end to end than the new ones that went on his car.

[goinstrong]

Most of the large chain auto parts stores will "sell" you a press kit, and refund you the total amount when you return it. Pressing them isn't that hard. Use liquid dish washing soap to press the new ones in. If the old one is worn out, it will press out fairly easily after spraying with PB Blaster or something like that.

Tim

[ThatOneEuroE30]

Get moog racing ball joints.

[LJ851]

chances are if the ball joints are worn out then the control arms have bent out of shape over time. good chance they wont go back into the control arm bushings once you get the new ball joints back in them. my friends car was in my garage on jack stands for two weeks when we tried this because he had to order control arms.

WTF are you talking about?

Control arms don't "bend over time" and i would much rather keep my original BMW arms than run some arms made who knows where to someone else's standards. Grab some OEM lemforder joints and press them in.

Can't get the control arm into the CAB ? You're not trying hard enough.

OP, any machine shop or decent mechanics shop should be able to do this for you. It is not a big deal.

[camshaftgsxr]

chances are if the ball joints are worn out then the control arms have bent out of shape over time. good chance they wont go back into the control arm bushings once you get the new ball joints back in them. my friends car was in my garage on jack stands for two weeks when we tried this because he had to order control arms.

[Th3importedguy]

buy whole new arms unless you have your own press it's not worth it

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yea that's kinda my problem i already bought them...

[kickinindian]

buy whole new arms unless you have your own press it's not worth it

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[Th3importedguy]

Where can i get this done for cheap. Im broke SOMEONE HELP ME!!!!