What to do for seized alignment cams?

Yes, during reassembly a little anti seize goes a long way. Each fall I mark the cams and remove and reapply anti seize. Mine have been good for 8+ years in the salt belt.

 

How’d you make out with the cam press?

 

does anyone know i ordered all my stuff from the dealer (besides bushings) do sleeves come with the bushing or should they come with the caster bolts?

 

Nothing comes with anything else. It's like eating at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse.

 

It was a waste of time and money. In the end, I had to cut the sleeves out of the front LCAs and replace the bushings anyway. In the process of torquing the crap out of that removal tool, I bulged out the LCA mounting plate a bit. The guy that did my alignment said he thought I'd hit something in the road. It aligned ok though.

It's probably a good tool IF they aren't seized too bad. Mine were beyond saving. I greased all my hardware up really good before reassembly. Now, I need to put some weld behind my alignment tabs. I pretty well flattened the ones on the side I tried the removal tool on, but I put them back in place with a punch and hammer.

 

What is the verdict on the Beck Arneley LCA's? Really don't feel like paying $600 for a set of LCA's from Toyota, and don't want to mess with trying to refurbish my 130k mile ones with seized cams.

 

made in Taiwan, really don't know much about the durability cause theres not very much reviews I can find, the weak link with aftermarket LCAs is the ball joint that seems to fail within 1-2 years even with light duty normal everyday driving

 

they are made in Taiwan, theres no reviews I can find on them. Really the best bet is to source the internet for the cheapest new OEM Toyota arms. Think your right in not refurbishing the old ones not worth the money,time,effort

 

I just ordered two sets of what's in that photo to have on hand for whatever I have to destroy in the process of getting mine back in working order. It is not cheap, but hopefully I can re-use some of my current hardware. I also went with the Toyota bushings and just plan to put some anti seize or grease on the bolts/sleeves, and see how that works. Fingers crossed!

 

have tried to removed the old hardware

 

The driver's side LCA is actually not seized, and the hardware appears to be in working order. I think I can save something from that side.

The passenger side is seized badly, and I expect a fight to get it out with much damage to the OG hardware. I'm going to hit it with penetrating fluid tonight, and will hack it apart with the reciprocating saw if it won't break loose.

 

I have the same scenario, I have the front passenger side apparently seized up the dealer aligned the truck and bent the tabs over pulling on the cam to try and set the camber and also didn't torque the bolts to 100 ft/pds on that side after so I was getting a metallic noise from the bushings moving around during articulation I re torqued the bolts and thought I had it fixed but I think the front bushing is fubared I still amm getting that squeak from it. I wonder if I could just have the one side a arm replaced instead of doing both the other side seems ok

 

I would think it would be ok to do that, but I would definitely have the dealer fix the bent tab. That's unacceptable workmanship.

 

I was going to take it back for having the steering wheel off center too, they said they would have to redo the whole alignment and I was having to pay for the labor, no way, never again to the dealer for alignment