New Upper A Arm Troubles
So you didn't bother to read it, and you posted a link to a UCA failure of a UCA made by a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT COMPANY.
That thread is not relevant in any way to this one, and will only further muddy the waters. The UCA in this thread is made by Firm Feel, which is a great company that has been supporting the Mopar hobby for decades. The company in the other thread went out of business because of its crappy production and welds.
I agree, that UCA is not to spec. That doesn't necessarily mean their jig is wrong though, it may have warped during welding or even been bent afterward. Jigs are not foolproof, and it depends on how the jig is set up.
Again, as I already said, this is not a company that makes thousands of UCA's. Hell they may not even make hundreds in any given year. They do small batch runs, and it sounds like they're having that done by someone else. Which means, if they don't currently have any on the shelf, they don't have any to send you until the next production run. If they're not doing the production runs themselves, then the availability of the fabricator they use would determine the production schedule. So quite frankly your attitude about the speed of replacement is misguided. Does it suck that they can't send a new one tomorrow? Absolutely. But that's not how things work all the time, and quite frankly some of the low production parts being out of stock for a few months has never been uncommon, this isn't a new thing.
As for the rest of it, I don't know how you approached this. I've been dealing with Firm Feel since 2008 and I have never had a single negative experience. Even just a couple months ago they shipped me a new bracket for their pitman arm bearing reinforcement kit. They had some brackets go out that were incorrect, there was another member here that posted it and they made a new run of brackets and sent them out free of charge. I sent an email and they had a bracket out to me as soon as it was produced, which was a couple months. I didn't even buy the part direct from them (which I told them), I bought it from another FABO member. I recently spent quite awhile talking to Frank about upgrading the torsion bars on my Duster, we went over all kinds of specs and hex offsets and he even helped me figure out that a set of Mopar Performance 1.14" bars I bought actually had the wrong hex offset on them.
It is clearly a Firm Feel UCA, and I seriously doubt this is a widespread issue.
The bushings should be aligned
So you didn't bother to read it, and you posted a link to a UCA failure of a UCA made by a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT COMPANY.
That thread is not relevant in any way to this one, and will only further muddy the waters. The UCA in this thread is made by Firm Feel, which is a great company that has been supporting the Mopar hobby for decades. The company in the other thread went out of business because of its crappy production and welds.
I agree, that UCA is not to spec. That doesn't necessarily mean their jig is wrong though, it may have warped during welding or even been bent afterward. Jigs are not foolproof, and it depends on how the jig is set up.
Again, as I already said, this is not a company that makes thousands of UCA's. Hell they may not even make hundreds in any given year. They do small batch runs, and it sounds like they're having that done by someone else. Which means, if they don't currently have any on the shelf, they don't have any to send you until the next production run. If they're not doing the production runs themselves, then the availability of the fabricator they use would determine the production schedule. So quite frankly your attitude about the speed of replacement is misguided. Does it suck that they can't send a new one tomorrow? Absolutely. But that's not how things work all the time, and quite frankly some of the low production parts being out of stock for a few months has never been uncommon, this isn't a new thing.
As for the rest of it, I don't know how you approached this. I've been dealing with Firm Feel since 2008 and I have never had a single negative experience. Even just a couple months ago they shipped me a new bracket for their pitman arm bearing reinforcement kit. They had some brackets go out that were incorrect, there was another member here that posted it and they made a new run of brackets and sent them out free of charge. I sent an email and they had a bracket out to me as soon as it was produced, which was a couple months. I didn't even buy the part direct from them (which I told them), I bought it from another FABO member. I recently spent quite awhile talking to Frank about upgrading the torsion bars on my Duster, we went over all kinds of specs and hex offsets and he even helped me figure out that a set of Mopar Performance 1.14" bars I bought actually had the wrong hex offset on them.
It is clearly a Firm Feel UCA, and I seriously doubt this is a widespread issue.
The bushings should be aligned
