gs4mock2

I have a 2013 ls ..bought the control arms from the dealer , tried removing the old one the part closest to the frame won’t come out after I took the bolt out😡

comotiger

You may find answers on this detailed thread about replacing control arms in a 2007 LS. Good luck!
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/ls-...tures-etc.html

johnnyg66

You will need a small sledge to break them loose. I gave up and had a shop do my lowers.

gs4mock2

Thanks , so there’s nothing holding it in place

johnnyg66

You talking about the arm the strut is mounted on?? Your probably stuck on the ball joint side. If you removed the bolt on the body side and nut on knuckle side and strut bolt. Whatever else is attached.

You need to bang it good to pop it free.

gs4mock2

The the end with out the ball joint. Won’t come off

johnnyg66

Yep. Either pop it good on the side or rent a ball joint press from Autozone or some where like that.

gs4mock2

Had to cut them out and replace these... so anyone doing lower arm 2 pick these up

abs

Can you explain this better please?

You were able to remove the original bolts holding the bushing to the body, but you replaced them when the new part went in?

What exactly did you have to cut up to get the bushing end of the control arm out?

Was it just rusted in place?

gs4mock2

The control arms and the alignment bolts for both were rusted together in side,I use the ball joint puller to wedge it out . Had to buy replacement (sleeve toe )inserts to put the new arms on..try to cut them out but no luck,a ball joint puller did the trick

jdanielca

and the sleeve toe inserts are the bolts shown above? just so i understand if i need to prepare anything else

gs4mock2

They are not bolts ,it’s hollow the bolts go inside them,you will need them if your doing the lower control arm #2 .paid $54 for the at the dealer where I got the control arms.

jdanielca

right understood, do you have the part numbers for those?

gs4mock2

This is it

jdanielca

ah I already taken note from picture above, I thought it was something else ok thanks