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Originally posted by skiwesser
Those battle boxes look like a pain to install (especialy the
uppers) and I don't weld or really know anyone who does.
I read an article about the upper install and I bet a shop would
charge out the butt to do it, if I could find somone who could.
What if I just got the seams on the lower mounts welded?
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As goes for the uppers....I would just put on like the motorsport heady duty ones or just get ones that don't have solid joints.
For the lowers....it took me no bull-shit 15 mins to install!!!!!! I only had to remove the nut for the lower control arm....that is in the front. The arm never came off. Then remove the seat ans drill the holes from the passenger carparment for the top plate. It's about as easy as it gets!!!!
The factory torque boxes are somewhat strong...ok to a point...but as soon as you start welding in there .....they only get weaker due to the heat from the welder!!!! I had mine welded 3x's. Everytime it just got worse. I was looking at getting a ladder bar set-up on my car until "Wild Rides" came out with thier "battle boxes". It was like a god sent.
Just buy the battle boxes for the lowers and use soft type of bushing on the uppers like mentioned before. You can even use the ones from like Steeda, Holcomb,etc.
My.02's