Ok I picked up a set of small joint upper A arms. But it has these reinforcement steel pieces added to them. My question is it factory or someone’s add on. Thanks in advance.
Ever seen upper control arms like this.
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Those are early 1960's UCA's with that welded on plate.
Nothing special to them, other than you just don't see them around anymore.
Nothing special to them, other than you just don't see them around anymore.
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Ok, what was the plate for? Asking for a friend.
But do you think that is someones addition to the arms or was it factory?
Was it factory?
Jim’s comment seems to indicate it was factory. I haven’t seen a set like that, but that doesn’t mean anything.
I dunno.
I never figured out a reason for it, in 40 + years, so who knows what some Chrysler engineer, designer, thought of doing that, back in the day.
I've seen them in the past, but very few of them.
So i doubt they were common, even back in the day.
Didn't last but a year, maybe two, so they figured out it didn't do any good, so it came to an end.
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My 64 Polara is that way, best I can tell, it appears factory
Hey Roy, same here on my 69 340 cuda....from a while back, so click on pic link to actually see pic. Factory.
Whats with this upper control arm???
I wouldn't go as far as to say that they didn't do any good. They might not be necessary, but that's not the same as not doing any good.
I would bet that someone decided the gussets weren't worth the additional cost that was required to add them. Without that tab no welding on the UCA is required during production, so it would eliminate an entire manufacturing process needed for the UCA's. Eliminating a whole step like that would significantly reduce production costs over the whole run.
The factory doesn't always do what's best, but figuring on them doing the cheapest thing they think they can get away with is a pretty safe bet.
Roy, it sure looks factory. It has the same color and age appearance as all the rest. The weld looks factory, too. Neat, but not "too good" and not "real shitty". Right in the range of a factory quality weld.
Coming back to it, it looks like it was put there to keep the bump stop from possibly sliding off that inside edge. I still say it looks factory.
Factory.I have 2 sets of NOS ones and they both have the brace welded on
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