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I know the control arms are a topic that has been beat to death, but it's usually with respect to the lower bushing. I'm in the process of swapping out the control arm bushings / ball joint on my FE5 alloy control arm and going through the typical pains of grinding off the rivet & drilling new holes for the ball joint and burning out and removing the outer ring for the lower CAB, I'm now on to the leading control arm. Given this has been a bit of a nightmare already, I'm trying to mitigate me installing the wrong part.
I ordered K200361 which is listed as an exact match and researched if these were different depending on the year model and it doesn't appear that's the case. However, when I put these up against what I'm about to press them into, things are not looking good when it comes to the rubber size (....that's what she said). The metal rod itself is great. Does the rubber stretch? Did I order the wrong part? Is there a special way to press these in?
I ordered K200361 which is listed as an exact match and researched if these were different depending on the year model and it doesn't appear that's the case. However, when I put these up against what I'm about to press them into, things are not looking good when it comes to the rubber size (....that's what she said). The metal rod itself is great. Does the rubber stretch? Did I order the wrong part? Is there a special way to press these in?