What's wrong with these Pictures?

[Topher]

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Not just the fact that this control arm is completly thrashed, but more so that this car was my daily driver for 7 years until last year when I started actualy working on her. I have no idea how long it's been this mest up, but the car did creek and squeek pretty much the entire time I drove it. It's even worse than it looks, when I took it out the greese cap fell off in my hand and dust came out, and there's a fracture along the ball joint that you can't see in the pic. I just thank God it held together as long as it did.
And replacing that thing was a PAIN!

 

[enferno]

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[StangDreamin']

Good God!
And to think that you might have been on the 8 or the 5 at the same time as me!

Man, you've been incredibly lucky that it hadn't let go; would have been a pretty hairy ride. Imagine heading East down Mountain Springs Grade - or worse, coming down 78 from Ramona through Anza-Borrego (one of my favorite drives) - and having that last skinny little inch of steel break loose. It could have been the loss of another classic Mustang, not to mention the Stanger!

Yet one more reason for me to get "up close and personal" with the BBC's front suspension before my daughter Jessie gets to put it on the road.

 

[bnickel]

i don't think i've ever seen a control arm quite that bad and that includes the broken one i saw on one of my professor's 71 mach. it had broken all the way around the ball joint. luckily he was in the parking lot at school when it happened and not one the road headed back home. at least his was still holding the spring up wel, not sure how your's was doing that even.

 

[BB1966]

Looks good to me bolt it back on er!!! Seriously ,looks like to me the perch bolts were loose.

 

[Topher]

Good God!
And to think that you might have been on the 8 or the 5 at the same time as me!

Man, you've been incredibly lucky that it hadn't let go; would have been a pretty hairy ride. Imagine heading East down Mountain Springs Grade - or worse, coming down 78 from Ramona through Anza-Borrego (one of my favorite drives) - and having that last skinny little inch of steel break loose. It could have been the loss of another classic Mustang, not to mention the Stanger!

Yet one more reason for me to get "up close and personal" with the BBC's front suspension before my daughter Jessie gets to put it on the road.

Are you from the San Diego area? Yea love the drive on the 78, and I'll injoy it even more when I redo the rest of the suspension, I only replaced the one uper control arm because it was soo bad but I going to buy a complete re-build kit and basicly replace all the old suspension.

 

[StangDreamin']

Are you from the San Diego area?

Nope; about 183 miles to the East, just across the "mighty Colorado" on I-8.

I usually make the run west, then east on 78 every July; in a pickup loaded with Boy Scouts and gear headed for a weeklong Scout Camp in North County - and it's NOT Mataguay. Cross from the freeway to 78 at Westmoreland, then up 78 to 2; thence up 79 past Warner Springs (and Mataguay), and then down Chihuahua Valley Road for a while 'til we hang a right and down 11 miles of mildly bumpy dirt road to Lost Valley.

I've made the trip quite a few times either in the wife's car or riding shotgun in somebody else's car (but not down the dirt road, just up to Julian); lots more fun in a lightweight, lower vehicle.

I sometimes wonder about the guys making the Julian run on scoots - I can see myself losing self control; and be blasting along, straightening the curves, and smearing myself all over the grille of some damfool with a truckload of Scouts.....

EDIT: I hope you spent a lot of time eyeballing the rest of the suspension before you decided to not change it all right now.... would be pretty hairy to find out on the road that something else was in the same shape as that UCA!

 

[Topher]

EDIT: I hope you spent a lot of time eyeballing the rest of the suspension before you decided to not change it all right now.... would be pretty hairy to find out on the road that something else was in the same shape as that UCA!

Don't worry, Im not changing it all right now because I'm not really driving it, it's not my daily driver any more so I'm not taking it more then a block or so, and the rest of the suspension isn't nearly as bad.