Just curious if anyone knows a vendor that you can purchase stock lower control arms and steering knuckles. I have tried a few places and no luck at junkyards. Any assistance would be great.

 

LCAs are the same as the ones on S trucks, G bodies, etc. They even have the holes for shock absorbers (which our cars don't have) in them. Only difference is the "height" of the steering stops, butt you can cut those off and just put a bolt and acoupla nuts in their place, and have adjustable ones.

Spindles are unique to these cars. Those are a bit tougher. AFAIK they're no longer available new butt I could be wrong. (and mistaken on this particular point, as well) Why are you looking for them? Maybe there's some other solution to your needs besides outright replacement.

 

I’ll look into the LCA. Long story short. My brother passed along time ago and my dad put the car in the barn for 24 years. I had to shipped to me and doing a complete resto to give back to my dad hopefully before his time is up. The knuckles were beat up from I guess previously beating on them to change bushing or something. I’m trying to get this Iroc back to the day it came off the dealership lot. I might be able to just smooth it out with a grinder to make it look more round.

 

Early 90s S truck CAs are the ones to get IIRC. Rockauto has them with bushings & BJs already installed.

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There's no bushings on a spindle. Tie rod ends, wheel bearings, a ball joint, and the strut. Both the BJs and REs only have their little stub shafts through holes in the spindle with a nut holding them in.

Where is this damage?

 

Sorry I was trying to multitask with work and reply. The spindle just looks like it as was beat on pretty good prior, allowing the LCA ball joint to drop to assume replace it.

 

*smh*

I guess hammers are a little like dykes... some people simply can't be trusted with them and should be forbidden from even owning them, let alone touching them.

Best course of action might be to watch the classifieds on this site for people parting out cars; or contact some of the board sponsors that regularly do that. Shouldn't be too difficult to take an unmolested one and make it look like new.

 

Often the spindles are on eBay as are the LCAs. Hawks may have them also. The spindles are becoming more rare as we mod them for larger brakes.

 

Yah I agree with not letting some people have tools lol. Yah I will keep looking in the classifieds and on eBay. Sad thing is, a lot of the parts are discontinued nowadays. So it’s hard to do a restoration. Because so many people are modifying them now.