Bent control arm mount, how to straighten. (1 Viewer)

[bhsdriller]

Have some caster plates to install and what's the best way to fix this?
Heat and just bend back?

 

[BILT4ME]

Use a pry bar and a hammer, or a big screwdriver.

Drop out the arm and use a large open-end-adjustable metric wrench. (Crescent wrench)

No need to heat.

 

[Tools R Us]

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Drop out the arm and use a large open-end-adjustable metric wrench. (Crescent wrench)
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This is how we do it, 24" for the win.

 

[inkpot]

If ya ain't got one just run by Harbor Freight.

 

[nukegoat]

Why bother changing it at all? It's higher clearance now, and if you bend it back it will add more fatigue.

 

[1911garand]

I'd give it a quick bang-bang and sleep like a baby.

 

[baldilocks]

Use a larger Ford wrench or Cresent. Slip the jaws over the bracket just in the bent area and tweak it back.

 

[Tedward]

Slowly back up to the curb you hopped at the mall and give it some gas. Should straighten out just right.

 

[alia176]

Before you loosen anything on the suspension, be aware of the "serrated" biting edge of Toyota suspension hardware. The flanged head bolts have them and the flanged nuts have them (I think, based on memory. Please correct me). DO NOT put a socket/wrench on a flanged hardware and rotate them as that ruins the biting edges.

You'll also need a torque wrench capable of going to the high torque value of the suspension hardware. Torquing these SOBs to the proper specs is so much fun laying under the 80

I know y'all know this but figured it's worth repeating. Is it beer thirty yet?