Help - Grease able Pivot Shafts

junior636 said
Are those hardened? Pretty crazy snapping a 5/8" shaft like that unless it was hardened. The black look to them makes me think they went through a hardening process.

The stock ones are not hardened.

On the upside if there was a failure after the fact, the control arm has no where to go so your lca isn't going to fall off but I still wouldn't want those breaking off!

I dont believe they were hardened. usually when you harden a material it becomes brittle. If a hardened rod failed in this manner the area would be "necked" down, or reduced diameter, at the breakage area. This did not happen. this was more of a spiral break which leads itself to be a ductile break.

Oldmanmopar said
Here is what I don't understand. What holds the control arm onto the shaft? I hope they are not depending on the torsion bar to do it because it does not. This is the same problem with the poly kits.

Using them this way is not to sturdy. It does not hold the arm from floating front to rear At the bushing. The torsion bar can nott be used to to this because they are designed to float in the hex ends.

That is why there is space at the rear where the clips go on. The factory rubber bushin is what holds the arm in place .

I was concerned with this too. But after reading another thread here, I believe the struts now have more of the responsibility of holding/locating the lower control arm