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welds look great, cant properly see the tube diameter but they do weigh in as tho there is real metal in them.
Black lighted?
Magnaflux crack detection process we use at work, makes the smallest flaw stand out clearly. Very nice on smaller critical items.
We always called it magnafluxed. I'm tracking.
Same process but uses a florescent magnetic particle and UV lamp, inspectors tell me its better... but they would! lol
ya no way I am doing that
Yup. Buy once, cry once. Also, MUCH stronger ball joint, and much easier to replace the joint.
In fairness, JBA makes upper arms. Not lowers....During the pandemic I needed to replace the UCAs and LCAs and various other front suspension parts but business was down a lot so I deeply researched and agonized and then bought what I was hoping were inexpensive but decent quality suspension parts from 1a auto.
1A Auto does alot of good advertising and makes alot of good claims about the quality of their parts…and of course they offered a lifetime warranty also.
Since I decided that couldn’t really afford the JBAs at the time (hindsight shoulda just put them on a CC) I ordered the 1a parts against my better judgement.
Then just last year, after putting new Michelin rubber on Giddyup, I took her in for an alignment at my excellent and local shop ….sure enough they couldn’t do the alignment cuz the lower ball joints were already bad with less then 25k road miles on them (though granted that the roads where I live could almost be considered off road)
For me doing a time consuming twice in just a few years means that I’d MUCH rather spend the extra dime on known quality psrts instead of experimenting with the unknown and having to do the job over again….I’m not even gonna make use of the lifetime warranty cuz there’s no way I’d make the same mistake by installing the same shoddy parts yet again,
Anyways, that’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it.
True …that’s fair.
Yeah like me, by the time I've imported them they cost more than the car!ya no way I am doing that
Honestly, I can't find much to argue with about the LCAa up front. Comparing them to my 97 Tacoma... Well, let's just say the mighty Toyota IFS LCAs are HIGHLY OVERRATED in that particular case. I watched my neighbor have a ball joint failure in the driver's front LCABJ (before he sold the truck to me) backing out of his driveway, and he's one to maintain his vehicles very well.
I'd be less worried about the bushings and ball joint in the Deekes brand, and more about the materials used, and the weldments made.
