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Right tools for the job! Rebuilt my front upper and lower control arms.

Welcome, nice 67 you have there. Give these guys a try, I know they often have the lower ball joints available. If you don’t see it on the site, give them a call. BALL JOINT

your right, I like to measure from the floor to the fender lip edge on both sides. The video may not be the best to illustrate. That’s why I stated to reference your factory service manual and the video is a casual general reference.

Reference your factory service manuel, in general mopars with torsion bar suspension adjust like this. (see video)

Correction I used 69-72 disc brake spindles. Also here is one of the sticky threads with lots of valuable info: 65 Fury disc brake conversion advice

I just did this conversion from drum to disc on my 1970 Chrysler Newport. My advice is do not be in a hurry, do your homework, it will save you a lot of time, money, headache, and grief. There is a lot of good valuable info here if you search for it. I know there are sticky threads on this...

Yes I used the 1 5/8 to drive in the bushing. Not sure about your other sizes. I can only go by what I did. I installed the Moog K7006 upper control arm bushings and the craftsman 1 5/8 socket purchased at Lowes fit like a glove. See attached pic. The blue shows the outer diameter which drives...

well theoredically its no different if you were to mount the control arm on the car and turn in the new ball joints. Unless of course you install the new ball joints first with the old bushings still on, then press in the new bushings afterward. I'll see how it goes, worst case I'll press in a...

oops already painted, if I have an issue I'll sandblast it off again.

the Powerbuilt is the service kit only. The socket needs to be bought seperately from craftsman 1 5/8 (to cup the bushing lip to press into control arm)

Here’s the tap info:

Thanks, I bought my tap from Mcfadden Dale industrial hardware in Santa Ana Ca.

I’m now ready to install the upper ball joints. I bought the special socket and I’ll be threading these on off the car on a vise. So I had something fabricated to mount the control arm to and secure it to the vise. Should make the job easy.

So now moving onto the upper control arms. I bought this kit and 1 5/8 socket and the job was a piece of cake. Here I’ll show installing my new moog bushings since I had already removed my old bushings.

Lower control arms are done, I’ll paint the shafts later.

So now I’m ready to press in my pivot shafts into the lower control arms, was recommended in this order, press pivot shaft into bushing first, then pivot shafts with bushing already in it pressed into lower control arm. A 1 1/4x8 pipe with connector did the trick for me. On this step you need to...

Here’s a pic of the old outer sleeve pressed out. Shows you how deep I turned that tap.

Now with the lower bushing sleeves completely out I cleaned up the bore with some scuff pads and my dermal to remove some previous guys butchery, was some deep scrapes inside the bore, so I smoothed them out with my dremel in preparation for the new bushings to be pressed in later.

Next I attempted to remove the lower control arm outer sleeve. I tried the welded washer with no success, ( welds broke) so I went with the 1 3/8 tap route and bravo came out very easily.