For those not in the know, but with poly tension rod bushings, um they will cause your LCA to crack overtime. Its due not only to the stiffness of the material (as sperical bearings are infinately stiffer), but its limited range of motion thus promoting binding IIRC. Its been a cpl of years since I read up on it but Ive been checking since then.
Now those with stock rubber or spherical bearing tension rod bushings this isnt really an issue but a good thing to do just incase.
So um yeah, I have been hearing some left side creaking under braking and full left lock low speed turns and decided to check on it last night. I knew my boots are torn for my rack and was just checking to verify it was the tie rod. While I was under there I decided to do my periodic LCA inspection and low and behold found a 1" or so crack at the tension rod mount. Just now I pulled the tension rod up, with the car on the ground as I was going to tack weld it to hold it untill tommorow, when I was going to reinforce the holes and box in the LCA. I found the other side of the LCA cracked as well, but a little more severe. One good hit (pothole, uneven road conditions, speedbump, as Ive never hit anything solid / worse btw) at speed could have taken the entire tension rod mount of the LCA clean off
So tonight Im going out with assistance of a friend in his vehicle, and tommorow am going to fix and reinforce both sides. Ill also post a pic of before and after
So yeah check them LCA's
