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Old Mar 29, 2011 | 06:57 PM
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broken radius arm!! how?

Ok the other day I was backing my truck out of the driveway and I heard a pop... got out and looked and my passenger side radius arm had snapped right where it goes into the frame bracket.... how the heck can that happen? I put a rough country lift on this truck a year ago and new bushings... could I have over torque'd the bushings? Or what?
 
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Assembled the bushings wrong? It has to give a little bit there. Also, harder plastic bushings are going to aggravate this.
 
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I'm pretty sure I had them together right... I just got the broken one off today now gotta go match it up I heard there are different ones...
 
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