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Old 01-04-2023, 08:18 PM
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Originally Posted by JLMounce View Post
These are obviously not the same, but my experience with the knock-off Global West stuff on my wife's Chevelle was less than stellar. The bushings and ball joints were crap and while the arms themselves were well made, because of the cheap components put into them, they wouldn't hold an alignment and they were excessively noisy.

Tho GW knock offs were in my 64 LeMans when I bought it. I swapped in Pro Forged ball joints but left the bushings in. Did you put in suitable bushings? If so, which ones did you use?

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