has anybody had a rear upper control arm break??

[velocitySiR]

yah i'm not sure if this is what happend to me but my rear wheel has been sitting like this \ hahaha, it's been snowing and shit so i havn't taken the rear wheel off but i'm pretty sure that's the prob...

[marked001]

damn...never heard of that happening. get out there in tha snow and take a look!

[mellowboy]

Damn its snowing there still??

[velocitySiR]

yah it was like 80 degrees here for awhile, then it snowed outta nowhere..... but anyways i took the wheel off today and looked at it and i wanted to puke all over..... the body mount honda has that mounts the lower control arm to the loaded beam is like paper thin, i'm surprized this hasn't happend to all of you guys, well that broke in two and that allows you to push and pull on the rear suspension (i.e. my wheel looking like this \ )..... i was kinda pissed at first but this guy is coming over tomarrow with a portable MIG welder and he's gonna tack it back up.....

[mellowboy]

Originally posted by velocitySiR
yah it was like 80 degrees here for awhile, then it snowed outta nowhere..... but anyways i took the wheel off today and looked at it and i wanted to puke all over..... the body mount honda has that mounts the lower control arm to the loaded beam is like paper thin, i'm surprized this hasn't happend to all of you guys, well that broke in two and that allows you to push and pull on the rear suspension (i.e. my wheel looking like this \ )..... i was kinda pissed at first but this guy is coming over tomarrow with a portable MIG welder and he's gonna tack it back up.....

Yeh same here in chicago but it didn't snow though. It was cold for a bit! Anyways my friend had the same situation that u were in . He also has a rex. We just replaced the whole thing.

[velocitySiR]

i can't replace the whole thing, the mount is part of the body...

[velocitySiR]

well my dad's friend is a welder and he's bringing all of his shit over here monday and it's gonna take 4 hours roughly, but i guess he's pretty much refabricating a stronger rear end.... and it's only gonna run me under $100.....maybe this can handle my ghetto drop.

[mellowboy]

Is it called trailing arm not control arm? I thought its called a trailing arm?? Eh who gives??

[velocitySiR]

actually i think the trailing arm is the one that runs paralell with the car and the arm i'm talking about is a stabilizer arm....... but keep in mind i work at a junkyard and they are called control arms all day...... still who cares.....