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Originally Posted by tangofox007
"Cheap" and "cost effective" are not synonymous. A $10 UCA bushing set is probably not worth installing.
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If there is no labor cost and you have the time to do it you will save as a new UCA is 2-3 times more.
Removing the UCA is the more labor intensive part of the job; compared to changing the bushing.
On the other hand you could put in 1-2 hours; (depending on how much you get paid at work) of overtime where you work and buy the New UCAs.
My own thought was to buy a whole front end kit for around $255 so I would have everthing I needed incase I found some unexpected problems.
As it turned out I had one UCA with a floppy Ball Joint and seriously rotted out LCA bushings and I also found the bore in the LCAs were rusted so bad that after I removed the rust the bores were oversized.
So you just do not know what you will find.
Also the FSM has a test for the Ball Joints where you screw a rod of a certain length into the joint an pivot it. If there is reasonable tension on the Joint it is OK.