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Painting Control Arms and Bushing Installation Prep

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I GOT ANOTHER JEEP!? Jeep tj Episode 1

What happens here

The current focus of the restoration is on addressing the rust and preparing new control arms. The creator shows a set of control arms that have been painted with Rust-Oleum undercoating in 'Rubberized Black.' Some control arms are already finished with multiple coats, while others require additional layers. He also reveals a box of new Pro Comp bushings that will be installed into these control arms. He mentions that he changed out the catalytic converters on his LJ, indicating another potential future DIY video.

Goal: Prepare and paint new control arms, and install new bushings.

Tools and materials

  • Beer Bottles Budweiser — Elevating parts for painting
  • Control Arms — Replacement suspension components
  • Pro Comp Bushings Pro Comp — Replacing worn bushings in the control arms
  • Rust-Oleum Undercoating Rust-Oleum — Painting and protecting control arms from rust

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that is the plan so far what have i done to the jeep though i'll show you so like i mentioned he gave me a bunch of new control arms for it along with the bushings so this control arm is done and these control arms need a couple more coats of paint you like my uh little paint stands there little beer bottles but i've been going through i've been using this rust-oleum undercoating right here stops ross i don't know i don't know if i'm a fan of it i guess we'll see how it goes but i've been using that i'm gonna clean it up he did put me with a whole new box of let's go over here he gave me a whole box of bushings so those would definitely get thrown in there before i do all that this is another story i changed out the cats on the lj so definitely should have done a video on that as well that was not fun um but yeah so here are the plans that i have with this so like i said i did the hood louver kit on it already and that was an easy install got the control arms i'm painting up the next step that i'm working on right now is i'm trying to clean all of this up so as you see here these springs are pretty worn out these shocks have definitely seen better days and i look at all those rust in here all this rust behind there so what i did is i've been going around with a grinder and i've been just cleaning up all of the rust all of the rust in there i gotta go through i gotta get new rotors on here gotta clean up the brakes clean up the calipers he sent me with a new uh track bar so i'm going to throw that on i want to do a curry anti-rock on

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