Okay my driver side upper control arm ball joint is shot along with my passenger side lower control arm bushing. I can't get the car aligned because of this and my car is pulling to the side during hard acceleration. It also shakes. If I let go of the wheel it will stay pretty straight but the steering wheel will go back and forth a little. If I take a corner to quickly it feels like I'm going to lose it. My question is what should I replace first? I'm afraid something will happen while driving and I don't have enough to replace both right now. I just need to replace the bushing on the lca while I have to purchase the entire uca to replace the ball joint. My funds are kinda of limited right now and I need to figure out which to replace before this fri. I don't want to replace the bushing only to have the ball joint fail on me before I can get it fixed and vise versa.

 

doh. i had those parts at my parent's house in LA, but they threw them out. you can usually find entire used LCAs for cheap because ppl upgrade them to ones w/ swaybar holes. when i swapped to teg brakes, the knuckle came with the UCA, so i had leftover UCAs. i bet you could find 'em pretty easy in a honda junkyard

 

Sorry I forgot to mention both parts are for the front on my 93 si. I was thinking about hitting up the junkyard but I don't want to have to buy new ones again later since they are off 12 yr old cars.

 

I'd say junkyard is your best bet, especially with the rains we've had recently, there should be a decent amount of cars in there right now.

 

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