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<blockquote data-quote="Jorday" data-source="post: 15373043" data-attributes="member: 37775"><p>For just a regular lower control arm swap I reused the stock bolts. I didn't think they were one time use fasteners. If you do the relocation brackets at the same they come with new bolts for the rear location because they need to be slightly longer. </p><p></p><p>If you decide to do the upper control arm at some point I would recommend getting a new bolt for the upper control arm to differential attachment point. The factory bolt has a metal piece welded on to the head of the bolt which hits against the factory upper control arm to prevent the bolt from turning while you tighten it. It works beautifully when installing a factory lower control arm, but it doesn't function to prevent the bolt from spinning with the BMR upper control arm in place. The welded piece makes it extremely difficult to use a wrench to prevent the bolt from turning while the nut on the end is torqued. The welded piece makes the wrench slip off the bolt head very easily if you aren't careful. The BMR upper control arms I believe are supposed to come with a new bolt for this location for that reason, but the new bolt was left out of my package and I did not want to wait for them to send me a new one so I was able to make the stock bolt work by being careful while tightening it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jorday, post: 15373043, member: 37775"] For just a regular lower control arm swap I reused the stock bolts. I didn't think they were one time use fasteners. If you do the relocation brackets at the same they come with new bolts for the rear location because they need to be slightly longer. If you decide to do the upper control arm at some point I would recommend getting a new bolt for the upper control arm to differential attachment point. The factory bolt has a metal piece welded on to the head of the bolt which hits against the factory upper control arm to prevent the bolt from turning while you tighten it. It works beautifully when installing a factory lower control arm, but it doesn't function to prevent the bolt from spinning with the BMR upper control arm in place. The welded piece makes it extremely difficult to use a wrench to prevent the bolt from turning while the nut on the end is torqued. The welded piece makes the wrench slip off the bolt head very easily if you aren't careful. The BMR upper control arms I believe are supposed to come with a new bolt for this location for that reason, but the new bolt was left out of my package and I did not want to wait for them to send me a new one so I was able to make the stock bolt work by being careful while tightening it. [/QUOTE]
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