I smacked my wheel up against a curb and bent the control rod. I extended the control rod to compensate and it drove like new, yet the bend was sever. Upon replacing the control Rod I didn't have spring compressors so I had to cut the top of the bolt off that holds the control Rod to the control arm and put a new bolt in where the nut was on top and the bolt came through the bottom, basically reversed. I did not use lock tight am I in big trouble.
By the way if you have to do this jod, do rent the compressors and change everthing you can, I had to use my car jack to push everything forward.