Recommendations for Lifted Tacoma LCA Bushings (and any other recommended supporting upgrades)

Hey everyone! First post here, thanks for the help in advance!

I have '19 OR Tacoma (~75k miles) with a 2" OME lift kit (installed at ~50k) and just the other day I noticed significant creaking from my driver side front suspension.

Whelp, I got under the car and immediately noticed a worn out LCA bushing. I was told that with lifts these tend to wear out fast.

So... my question to the community. What are replacements I can install to not only fix the bushing but prevent future accelerated wear?

I've attached some photos of my worn out bushing and my ride for reference!

 

Alright, figured I'd at least report back on what I ended up doing for posterity's sake.

The issue: My LCA bushing was indeed shot and both of my SPC UCA ball joints had some play in the them. Not sure what issue came first, the chicken (LCA bushing) or the egg (the ball joints), but I'm sure they're related. My LCA bushing was so bad that I could wiggle it with little to no force vs. the good bushing which was quite rigid.

Solution: I ended up replacing both my lower and upper control arms. This time I went with Old Man EMU UCAs as I read that they are quite reliable. I figured it was just bad ball joints from SPC seeing as my lift isn't all that substantial (only 2" on the front, maybe even a little less).

I did the job myself and it was surprisingly manageable. The only pain in the a** step was removing those long a** UCA bolts. I ended up cutting the heads off with a wheel and put the new bolts in backwards for easy removal later. Since theoretically the bolts could fall out in the direction I installed if the nuts were to back off I ended up drilling a hole through the bolt (at the end of the threads) and installed a pin.

All in all I am super happy with the result: the truck drives beautifully with no more creaking!

 

number 1 cause of bushing failure after a lift is from people tightening the bolts up when the suspension is at full droop. DO NOT do that. truck has to be on the ground at static ride height before tightening any bolts with rubber bushings.

 

Thanks Devin! I did this for both my upper and lower control arms. Got things somewhat secure without preloading, dropped the truck (slowly), then tightened it to spec before limping the truck to the alignment shop: boy were things out of alignment… had to keep it under 20 mph to keep the screeching down :S