LCA Bushings: OEM, Energy Suspension, Whiteline

Dropbox is discontinuing the "Public" folder support next month so I have to convert all my links to their new sharing method. The links in this thread will probably be dead for awhile.

 

I finally popped in some white lines over the summer. Sweaky as hell!

I don’t mind because my front end is real tight.

 

They are squeaking? We lubed them up pretty good too!

 

I thought so! Some of the guys in this thread say to use super lube, which I had brought to the meet.

But, yes, these puppies squwak like crazy. I kind of like it

 

Well that just proves to me how crazy you are! Lol

 

I put a link at the top of the OP to PDF copies of the first couple of pages of this thread so the photos are not lost.

 

So are people replacing these only when the truck can no longer be aligned due to seizure? I hope I never have to do this..

 

That's a good question. I'm at 300k+ but alignments go smoothly.

 

Mine are seized. Doesn't take much rust to freeze a bolt in a sleeve that's rubber mounted. No leverage and can't use heat to loosen it up.

 

Interesting. I put white lines in around the beginning of Summer and they don't make a sound. I lubed the heck out of them though.....

 

Honestly, it may mostly be my rear springs that I hear while I’m driving around town. But I thought I remember some serious squeaking when I took it for a shakedown run after installing them.

 

Anyone know where I can find these?

 

curious, they have upper bushings?

 

They offered it at one time.
I confirmed it with them earlier this yr. They didn't have them in hand when I called. They had 2nd gens tho.
$500 ha? Is that for the whole arm assembly or just the parts and labor or replacing the bushings. Oh, and last I checked they use "their own poly bushings" no oem option.

 

SD Truck shop? @tony2018 I don't believe they offer(ed) a deal but I'm sure they can do it for $$$

 

White line, but it looks like they only had the lower control arm. Was hoping they had upper and lower. I don't see any oem options for the upper, just lower. I guess the reason is people replace the upper control arms as they raise their trucks.

 

I kinda look for quality too, I guess I'm being picky. Just want my truck to last.

 

I went with white line in my lowers and am glad I did. They seems real nice

Also looked at uppers and only saw them offered by energy suspension. I figured mine were still okay and I’ll probablt upgrade uca’s at some point in the near future, so I passed.

 

If you have a lift and wheel really hard they will wear out. So much that my brakes almost pulled me off the road a few times.

What people dont realize are when wheeling the OEM bushings are so tight that they bind up and can stop a tire from drooping as far. Polys allow full unbinding movement of both control arms.

 

For me:
OEM lasted 200k miles. Poly or Whiteline won't come close. OEM FTW