Need advise on UCA's (Bilstein or Dirt King)

I currently only have a leveling kit on my 2020 Tacoma, I want to replace the UCA's but trying to see what's a better option for price, reliability, and longevity between Bilstein & Dirt King upper control arms based on experience? Trying to achieve a 3" lift using Fox 2.5 coil overs.

 

There are a lot of UCA options, even between the two options you picked. So, it depends. Some things to consider are the bushings (polyurethane, heim joint?), ball joint (uniball, heim joints), thickness of the tube.

I went Camburg because all things being equal, they were in stock.

 

I was looking at the Camburg and a coworker also has those on his truck, but I spoke with the mechanic who's going to do the work and he said it's much harder to get a true alignment with the Camburgs it this true based on your experience?

 

No issues here. Again there are so many variables that can be customized just in one companies offering. It depends. Keeping it simple, I went with the poly bushings and grease-able X joint.

I’m not a Camburg fanboy. I do like the product. However, I went with DirtKing LCA because they met my requirements and again were in stock.

 

They are both similar. I’d get whichever is cheaper. I strictly remember when the bilstein UCA was teased they looked like a dirt king UCA with bilstein sticker. No idea if the two companies collaborated but after official release the bilstein product comes now with black bushing instead of red and the gussets at the bushing location changed from the diamond dirt kings type to what they have now. In the photos the bilsteins even have the typical moog ball joint same as dirt King runs so I doubt they are really any different.

I ran dirt kings on a Lexus gx470 with zero issues.

 

Thanks for the info, really appreciate it.

 

How bout JBA? Zero issues with mine.