19eighty4_z28

Does anybody know a company that makes stock or near stock R & L front control arms for a 3rd gen. Almost everything is $500 plus. Somebody out there gotta make ‘em…right?

DaveyDug

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Used ones are dirt cheap all over the place. Buy a set, powder coat or paint them, install new bushings and ball joints and slap em in your car.

19eighty4_z28

That’s the first option I tried. Took me calling around to 672 places just to find a shop that would press new ones in. Guy at the machine shop said “the ball joint is too big and won’t go in” it’s a TRQ part…maybe try a different brand?

LiquidBlue

search around here, I think it is a chevy S10 that has same arm, less the bump stops, which can be welded on.

19eighty4_z28

what year S10?

sofakingdom

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If you REALLY want new ones for whyever, get S10 ones. Same thing. rockauto has em. Maybe 91 or so, doesn't really matter, the part has been the same since they introduced it part in about 1978 on Chevelles and El Caminos and such.

19eighty4_z28

[QUOTE=sofakingdom;6499814]If you REALLY want new ones for whyever, get S10 ones. Same thing. rockauto has

So my question remains…what year S10 has the same ones.

DaveyDug

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You can press them in yourself. The tool can be rented for free at Auto Zone. Bushings are really easy to press in. Ball joints are a bit more challenging, but very doable. Watch some YouTube videos to see how it all works.

I don't know anything about TRQ parts, but you want your ball joints to be a good press fit.

LiquidBlue

Yo Sofa!

LiquidBlue

yes sir

LiquidBlue

[QUOTE=19eighty4_z28;6499815]Prollly about the same year, i dont know. Do your research, its your car, dont f it up. you will learn, and you will be proud of your project. do it!

sofakingdom

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What year was the S10 introduced? What year was it discontinued?

So far as I know, from that year, to the other year.

I had a 78 El Camino. Had the same ones. Of course both of those types of vehicles have front shock absorbers, which our cars don't, even though their CAs have the hole pattern for them.

I wanted used ones one time because one of mine was bent. I went to the junkyard, which at the time I visited every few weeks for one thing or another, and walked up to the counter and asked for a pair, since I didn't feel like pulling them myself. Hadn't seen a 3rd gen in the yard for months. D00d walked to a shelf, there was a pile of em about 3' tall, pulled a couple out, and handed em to me. Cost me like $25 or 30 (late 80s, not saying that's what they'd cost today). Clearly had had shocks bolted to em their entire life. Still on the car to this day.

Only potential difference, as far as "fitment", is the steering stops. Which as Liquid pointed out, can be cut off and replaced. Pretty easy to do that by drilling a hole and using a bolt and 2 nuts, which then even makes them adjustable. W/e, the ones I got at the buzzard nest were fine, I didn't mess with em at all.