Advice on Lower Control Arm damage & repair

[LittleBeast]

I agree with Bart, the KISS should definitely be implimented here, Keep It Simple Stupid ;-)

Far too many times I have tried to fix TOO much and ended up having worse problems down the road with what I was trying to avoid. Keep it as stock as possible.

Just like Bart said I would replace LCA and bushing and then go to a place that does do the laser alignment. My gut feeling is that you will be good to go after that :-)

[Buffy]

Sue,

I did the exact same thing to my race truck the last race of the year. I heated the part circled in red and "gently" tapped it in place with a 5 pound hammer. Now something that has not been mentioned here is this would be an awesome opportunity to do an SAS on your VX. Ditch all the torsion bars and IFS stuff and find a Dana 44. You could do a leaf spring front and have nice articulation with minimal install labor going the leaf route.

Just a different idea.....

Greg

[nfpgasmask]

Hammering the piece back to where it belongs is actually not a bad idea. That is, if it is indeed out of whack. If it bent at all, I would say it is minimal, so heat it up orange hot and hammer it back into position. I think with a straight lower control arm, you will find out if it is bent a little. I think getting the LCA to line up right will be difficult, making the damage apparent.

Bart

PS - SAS....SAS....SAS....always a novel idea, but I have yet to see a good looking SAS on ANY Isuzu....but this is just me. Things get a little funny looking with a SAS, IMO.