Light racing UCA cheap buy and renew. I love craigslist!

Ok. So i have been itching to get my truck lifted and decked out, but i wanna do it with good parts and i wanna do it right. Well if you are on a budget like me and you know what you want craigslist can be awesome.

After keeping and eye out for a number of things, i came across a set of light racing upper control arms for 200 bucks. They had some surface rust and the ball joints were questionable. So i snatched them up and quickly found a set of upgraded ball joints with the grease fittings and everything for 65 bucks. Then i grabbed a beer and turned on some misic and started sanding. Before long i had them down to metal begging for some fresh new satin black paint. After sanding them i cleaned them real good with rubbing alcohol. Then i hung them up and went to town.

I am so amazed at how well they turned out. They literally look like they are brand new out of the box.

So in total

$200 for the uca's
$65 for the new upgraded ball joints
$10 for the VHT epoxy paint

$275 for essentially brand new uca's and it was a super fun project.

 

Wow! Good job man!

 

Well done! Those do look brand new

 

Nice make sure they have the upgraded Spec Ride bushings as the older versions sucked.

 

Thanks, i will certainly look into that.

 

Just wouldn't want you to have to damage all that nice paint work to put in all new bushings

 

So after a little bit if research i know mine have the updated spec ride bushings so it should be good. I am going to take the sleeves out and re grease them for good mesure. Thanks for the heads up.

 

Looks really good. Nice job.

 

sold mine last year for 200 canadian.....kicking myself now