rear upper and lower control arm replacement (3 Viewers)

[landarcht]

Time to replace the rear upper and lower control arms for the first time since taking delivery of my 2005 cruiser. I'm looking at Dobinsons or similar (rubber bushing), nothing too crazy since I don't do rock crawls or anything extreme. Truck is lifted 2", just looking for something robust with reliability, durability and a noise-free ride.
Also do I need to replace panhard bar to go with it?

 

[Trunk Monkey]

Why are you replacing them?

 

[landarcht]

Been having this clicking noise few at least couple of years now. Replaced links and bushings with kit from Cruiser Teq and still with noise. Asked my mechanic to take a look while doing oil change this morning. He said to replace the rear ones because of complete dry rot. I figure it's too much labor to just replace the rubber bushings?

 

[Trunk Monkey]

Have you inspected them yourself? If you just replaced the bushings and links it's highly unlikely it's the control arms. I thought your click was inside the cabin and the tailgate.

 

[landarcht]

I was not at the shop when he had the car lifted. I don't think the rear control arm bushings was part of the replacement I did couple years ago. Yes I followed the tip on the other post regarding the interior noise, the it did help a bit when I slipped a sheet of packing foam under the rear hatch carpet panel, probably need a thicker one to fully pad it since there is alot of cable and tube's running under that panel that could make the noise when car is goion rough roads

 

[Trunk Monkey]

You don't need the car lifted to inspect them and you should be able to look at receipts, if you save them, and see if you replaced them.

 

[landarcht]

I used Cruiser Teq's sway bar bushing kit, so no control arm bushings were replaced.

 

[porschenut]

This comment only pertains to the aspect of the panhard rod.

After maxxing out my AHC sensor lift (new SPC UCAs which allow more lift than OEM UCAs) and adding an extension bracket for my rear AHC sensor, my truck handled really, really poorly. I don't know the exact lift but I figure somewhere around +/-3" lift right now. I'd been lifted roughly 1.75" on the OEM UCAs prior to that with no ill handling at the time. After going to the +/-3", forest roads with a bumpy surface became awful. The truck constantly feeling like it was twitching to the right whenever it encountered a rough surface (running on comfort/soft mode on those forest roads). After the extra lift I also felt like I had to leave AHC on sport/hard mode for all pavement since it still felt somewhat bad in comfort mode.

An Eimkeith Panhard Correction Kit did wonders for the twitchy handling. A proper correction kit and the stock panhard rod is clearly a much better solution than an aftermarket adjustable rod.