upper control arms

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well, so are all upper control arms the same across the board as far a,b,e body except for ball joint.
 
I ask that because I have lower control arms from a E body and there just a little different that an A body, length mostly
 
I ask that because I have lower control arms from a E body and there just a little different that an A body, length mostly
pretty sure the uppers are wider too. Im not sure I'd try to run those E body ones on an A Body.
 
well let me figure out my upper control arms first, are there marking on them to perhaps tell me year or make. there not A body because there big ball joint. there is a number. it says 3-305, they didn't spring or anything when I removed them from the car. normal fit.
 
the other control arm says 3-078 this marking is on top of control arm, opposite the strike area where the bump stop would hit.
 
well let me figure out my upper control arms first, are there marking on them to perhaps tell me year or make. there not A body because there big ball joint. there is a number. it says 3-305, they didn't spring or anything when I removed them from the car. normal fit.
No. E nor B body upper control arms will not fit your A body cuda. Neither will C etc. c

You need A body uppers, if you took uppers off your cuda that are big ball joint, then at some point in it’s life, someone converted it to the big ball joint spindles. And thus the big ball joint uppers
 
Does this as body cuda have disc brakes?
 
A ‘69 Barracuda came from the factory with small ball joints

A-body upper control arms are unique to A-bodies, they will not fit B/E/F/M/J/R or C bodies, and none of the upper control arms for those cars will fit an A body

All A-body upper control arms were large ball joint staring in 1973. They were the same as the 67-72 A-body upper control arms except for the large ball joint

Sounds like your ‘69 Barracuda was converted to 73+ controls arms, spindles and brakes at some point. It’s a popular conversion to get the 5x4.5” bolt pattern and later disk brakes.

The full article with the spindle geometry information on the FMJ spindles is here

https://www.hotrod.com/articles/mopp-0503-swapping-a-and-b-disc-brake-spindles/
 
A ‘69 Barracuda came from the factory with small ball joints

A-body upper control arms are unique to A-bodies, they will not fit B/E/F/M/J/R or C bodies, and none of the upper control arms for those cars will fit an A body

All A-body upper control arms were large ball joint staring in 1973. They were the same as the 67-72 A-body upper control arms except for the large ball joint

Sounds like your ‘69 Barracuda was converted to 73+ controls arms, spindles and brakes at some point. It’s a popular conversion to get the 5x4.5” bolt pattern and later disk brakes.

The full article with the spindle geometry information on the FMJ spindles is here

Swapping Disc-Brake Spindles - Mopar Muscle Magazine
ok 72bluNblu, everything makes sense now. that will explain the 5 on 4.5 bolt pattern up front. I did get new axles for the rear to match front a couple years ago. next question is I probably will have to get lower ball joints for a 73 A Body
 
ok 72bluNblu, everything makes sense now. that will explain the 5 on 4.5 bolt pattern up front. I did get new axles for the rear to match front a couple years ago. next question is I probably will have to get lower ball joints for a 73 A Body

Correct, you'd want 73+ A-body disk lower ball joints.

You also need A-body lower control arms. The E-body lower control arms are shorter than A-body LCA's, and that will change your suspension geometry for the worse. They also use different pivot pins, so they're not a straight bolt on without changing the pins anyway.
 
Correct, you'd want 73+ A-body disk lower ball joints.

ok now lets talk LCA. are all a body the same regardless of drum or disk. my car does has a set I found in the trunk not sure if there from a 69 or now they could be 73. it looks like my upper UCA are 73 ish due to the big ball joint. spindles were still connected to the UCA but I think the left was on the right and you get the picture calipers were facing to the rear of the car.
 
All A-body UCA’s are the same with one exception, the location of the sway bar mounting tabs.

So if the LCA’s don’t have sway bar tabs they’re all the same. If they do have sway bar tabs there are two versions, 67-72 and 73-76. They have to be matched to the K-member and sway bar being used.
 
All A-body UCA’s are the same with one exception, the location of the sway bar mounting tabs.

So if the LCA’s don’t have sway bar tabs they’re all the same. If they do have sway bar tabs there are two versions, 67-72 and 73-76. They have to be matched to the K-member and sway bar being used.
not that you'd be the first one to cut them off and move them
 
not that you'd be the first one to cut them off and move them

Exactly.

Although honestly the tabbed LCA’s sell for twice as much as the plain ones, so what I usually tell people is that if they have the wrong year tabbed LCA’s just sell them, buy a plain set of LCA’s and a a set of tabs from BergmanAutocraft and weld them on wherever your sway bar needs them. Because you could probably still be money ahead selling the original tabbed LCA’s and doing that.
 
i have a hard time paying for small pieces of bent metal that i just need to weld on anyway. might as well make em' myself
 
i have a hard time paying for small pieces of bent metal that i just need to weld on anyway. might as well make em' myself

Yeah just depends on your fabrication ability, how much time you want to spend and how “original” you want them to look. For me I don’t care what they look like. But my QA1 LCA’s for my Duster had tabs on them already, same for the 73+ LCA’s I had before that. And the Hotchkis bars I bought for my Dart and my Challenger come with tabs. So I haven’t had to make any.

I have tabs for sway bar, I can get a picture of one and lets find out what I have

That would be helpful!
 
no no my LCA have tabs they look factory but since 69 tabs are different than 73. it must be a location thing. I figure I would post a pic and see what I have. I do thank everyone for the input on this matter.
 
up to 72' the tabs are further out on the arm. 73' later closer in
 
looks like I have 69 LCA

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