Where to procure bolts for JBA UCAs.

Got them in the mail a few days ago. Going to install soon. They want to reuse the LONG stock bolt, I’d rather not.

Is there a place that I can buy new bolts to have 2 bolts per side, instead of reusing the factory one?

 

The bolts are not stretch bolts and are ok to reuse/reinstall/retorque.

The dealership!

These trucks were not engineered to have two UCA mounting bolts, just one.

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Reuse it is. Thank you.

 

Perfectly ok to reuse them.

 

Have fun putting in back in. It is a PITA, make sure you get a buddy to help. Some people say to put it in backwards but I was too paranoid about it so I opted to put it back the way it was

 

Dealer parts counter or Wheeler's Off Road have those. Depending on your truck's build tolerances, you may have to butcher the inner fender aggressively to get the existing bolt out. The cleaner solution is to cut the bolt head in-situ with a cutoff wheel and install the replacement bolt from the rear.



The long bolt is $20 apiece, so $40 + shipping for two:

 

I bought two new bolts and cut off the original at the head or actually @Superdave1.0 did and installed them the other way. Much easier if you have to take them off again ever but if you don’t well there you go. They want you to bend the body sheet-metal and all that to get them out it sucks.

 

The bolt goes through a sleeve in the coil bucket/shock tower, so you couldn't replace it with two bolts

FWIW I found it perfectly accessible to get the stock bolts in and out in the original orientation. The argument for not putting them in like stock is that if the nut loosens up, much less likely the bolt is going to wiggle its way out upward than if faced downward

 

Allegedly Toyota put out a TSB saying the opposite way was just fine.

 

I'm almost certain that if Toyota had to replace your UCA under warranty, they aren't going to pull the cab off of the frame to do it. And of course, bending the sheet metal is not a method that Toyota would accept either. That leaves flipping the bolt... So I'd easily believe there is a TSB that states as much.

I personally cut and flipped my bolt. I've seen the fender bending method be easy, and then I've seen it be difficult. I didn't want to introduce a new opportunity for the truck to rust, by screwing the paint up when bending the fender. From my experience, there's not a snowball's chance in hell that the UCA bolt is going to come loose on it's own. Let alone, fall out.