Lower Control Arm Spin

[trad07]

I bought a front end rebuild kit and installed everything but the lower control arm bushings because I had no press. I found a garage who pressed the old out and the new in for $75 dollars. The bushing on the passenger side is great but, on the one on the Drivers the shaft turns when I try to tighten it. If I hold it on the shoulder with a pipe wrench it tightens. Will the torsion bars work properly or did the garage give me the shaft?

 

[hemi71x]

Someting isn't right with that bushing, that your shop pressed in, or possibly the LCA itself.

New rubber in the bushing itself should be molded in there nice and tight, and when the shaft is pressed into the bushing, and then into the LCA, it shouldn't spin, when tightening.

The only time they "spin" is if the bushing is totally deteriorated in the LCA, and worn out.

You find that out real quick on an old car, when trying to remove the self locking nut on the shaft, through the crossmember.

You are using regular rubber bushings, aren't you? and not poly's?