I do all of my own work, but I ran into this issue at one of the final steps.
What about it?
My beloved 2006 Ford F150 has been in my family since 2014. It was my dads, and then my moms before mine. It’s a great truck but my parents always took it somewhere to get work done.
I’m a (DIY) mechanic and I was swapping out my upper control arms before a road trip to Ocotillo Wells this weekend.
To take out the control arm there is a million and one pieces to take out or loosen before you can change it.
The genius where my dad took this to get this control arm swapped back in 2016, installed the bolts backward, requiring you to remove the strut tower, which is an unneeded step if everything is installed properly.
Mildly infuriating to some? Probably not but it was to me.