Light racing uca's any good?

Is the light racing uca's any good plus on a budget.. any help will be great

 

Not good.

Save your money for some arms with uniballs.

 

Thanks appreciated

 

What uca's would u suggest

 

This being Tacoma World, there is no shortage of opinion on this issue. Have a look a this thread, for instance:
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/light-racing-or-camburg-ucas.399287/#post-11079180

 

Can't go wrong with any of the well known brands - (Total Chaos, Icon, Camburg, Dirt King, etc) My personal preference is Total Chaos.

 

For comparison, Camburg makes both a balljoint an a uniball version of their UCAs. The uniball version is $200 more expensive.
And, to further complicate your choice, there are many people that swear by Light Racing arms. As @DoorDing asked, what are your intended uses?

 

He's in Jersey, according to his info. Uniball + salted roads = premature failure, right? No personal experience here...

 

ive had them for a few years now, alignment has been good and steady, and no issues other than I have to tighten the bolt on one of them every couple months to prevent it from squeaking, but the other side never makes noise, strange. I got in on a tw group buy for them at the time so the price was good at least. *shrugs* its good enough for mall crawling imo.

 

I'm pretty happy with my LR control arms.

 

Over 5 years on my LR UCAs , no problems

 

I am also happy with my LR UCA's. I will say though its a pain to find an alignment shop that understands what an adjustable upper control arm is.

 

I got my alignment done at my Toyota dealership

 

This is a very misleading post.

 

I installed my UCA's while being stationed here in Puerto Rico. I do not have confidence that the Toyota dealership here can change a tire after my last visit there. Eight more months...

 

Opinions vary. Affordable, reasonably durable. Not as strong as uniball. Over time, I've come to the conclusion they just confuse alignment techs and therefore can actually make it harder to get a good alignment vs. a non-adjustable UCA like camburg.

The flip side of that is that they ARE more adjustable, and just today I aligned my truck by taking advantage of that fact and setting the caster-preset 2 degrees different driver to passenger to compensate for minor geometry variations that seem to be endemic to my particular truck.

 

Thank you all for the imput. Also yes from being close to the ocean plus they heavily salt are roads out here in the winter. Rust is always a issue out here on all cars and trucks

 

Plain and simple I'd run stock arms over LR UCA, any day.

I've seen enough issues and seen the quality difference.

EDIT- here's a quick Google search...quality stuff. Sorry for misleading...can I say not good now?
Also, plenty of guys DD with Uniballs in harsh conditions, not really hard if you perform maintenance...and that being said not much maintenance if your running SS balls.

 

That sentiment is not what your post conveyed. Uniball is one specific style of UCA, LR is not the only make of ball joint UCA. Also, LR works very well for a lot of people. Plenty of members on TW that offroad seriously run the LRs. Have you ever run them? Not trying to attack you, just want to make sure that OP doesn't get the wrong idea from your post.

 

I refuse to run them and everyone I wheel with that had them ditched em or wants to.

Bushing issues, cracked welds...critical suspension components are not something to go low budget on.

Sure Camburg makes BJ tubular UCA, but for the $$ difference might as well step up to Uniballs. I think JBL or something like that makes BJ arms now too.