deknick

hey guys,

has anyone ever replaced the REAR LOWER CONTROL ARMS on thier MK1 GS300? please help me


Just wondering if someone can do me a solid and locate a control arm for me.
I own a 92 aristo in Canada, and cannot, i repeat CAN NOT for the life of me find a Right rear lower control arm for it or the GS300.

I have been able to find everything else, front upper/lower balljoints and control arms, rear upper control arms, sway bar links and bushings, but after checking over a dozen aftermarket suppliers and noone can find a RR lower control arm+balljoint, and i'm not going OEM cause it's just too stupid expensive, and ebay has nothing new.

Can someone please do me a favour and call some local autozone's or whatever those stores are called down there and see if they list an aftermarket lower control arm for the right rear of a 93-96 lexus GS300?

i'll make it worth your while and give you some cash on top or a LED kit or something.

even if someone can find it at any of hte stores, and pass the number onto me and i'll call from work and get them to ship it out right ot my work or something.

TheMole

iTrader: (13)

Is it #5 or #8 in this pic?

deknick

it's number 8. the lower control arm, OEM toyota part number 48730-30040

no 5 is trailing arm, and from what i was able to see, are still perfect on the car. that one i can find, it's just that ******* 8 that i can't find like ANYWHERE in canada

Imperium11

hi, im not sure if this will help but, in alberta theres a tuning shop and the parts manager there jimmy bailey has an aristo, they are in generall pretty damn toyota savvy from what i know.
hopefully this helps
http://www.monsterhorsepower.com/

deknick

already checked with jimmy, he's got like a thousand toyotas, lol, and talked to him and he wasn't able to help, only with OEM, and i could get a deal, around the same price that i could get from toyota through my work, but still WAY to expensive.

that shop is good ****, they helped me when my hydro fan hose blew a leak just outside of banff when it stranded me on the side of hte road in +33 C weather. haha

vtec-this

iTrader: (3)

i have a used one......

deknick

how used? and how much would you want? is the bushing good, or was there a little play in it?

plkyone

iTrader: (1)

i think the supra and sc300 arms are the same as the gs hope this helps some!

deknick

the OEM part numbers are different, so i'm not all to sure about the supra ones fitting.

what kind are your adjustable rear control arms in your SIG that your talking about?

plkyone

iTrader: (1)

SUpra!! thats y the part # may be differnt toyota vs lexus but the rear parts are the same

deknick

hmmm, taht's wierd, cause my aristo has the same part numbers as a lexus gs300. wierd they changed them from supra to others. now i find some of those as well, can't seem to locate.

waht years of supras are the same? and TT or NA?

vtec-this

iTrader: (3)

165k miles used .... and i would ave to pull it out my parts car but their is just to mucj snow on the ground at the moment

Is300Tree2

At one point I saw the bushings available to replace seprate from the whole arm.

jmax.garage

iTrader: (2)

you checked rock auto and found nothing?

deknick

yea, check rock auto, have front and rear uppers, but not rear lowers