Bent lower control arm bracket

Finally put on my new strong flex bushings(what a bitch), to find out my mounting bracket is bent and its squeezing one side of the control arm badly and destroyed one of the bushings hammering it in
any recommendations to where I can find a new bracket?

 

Are you referring to this:


Not sure how that would even happen.

I don't think you're going to easily find "a new bracket". That's something that would either need to be chopped off a donor truck or fabricated from scratch. And given that it's a locating member of the suspension, it's re-installation would be fairly critical.

Keep in mind that the bushing are a tight fit in there- They don't just slide right in.

If you are sure it's damaged, my instinct would be to try and repair what you have. Use a slide hammer connected to a bolt (through the cam hole) with some 1/4 plate on it.. Heat up the mount, and try to use the hammer to pull it back to square.

 

yes exactly, tried bending it back and its wrinkled now,

I got the truck like this, I hadnt noticed till now, Im thinking either the previous owner hit something, or the bushings in the control arm were so bad, driving around over the years it eventually bent it

 

Just get it as straight as you can and send it.

 

Holy fucking emoji...

Yeah just take a big hammer and send it home.