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Teraflex Long Arm - Insulating front control arm mount brackets

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Old 10-28-2015, 06:00 AM
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Default Teraflex Long Arm - Insulating front control arm mount brackets

Anyone running the Teraflex long arm on a 3.8L JK will notice the front control arm mount brackets, particulalry on driver side, are very close to the exhaust & lower catalysts. Combined with the cat Teraflex's upper control arm flex joints are rather small (probably too small), the heat from the exhaust & cats causes premature failure. Taking a cue from the Factory, who have installed upper control arm heat shields on recent model 3.6L JKs, I decided to try insulating the Teraflex mounts. I used some DEI 50501 stuff from Summit. One test drive shows promise, the arms & bushings were cool enough to touch, particularly on driver side. If you're chewing up Teraflex's expensive bushings with regularity like I was this may be your fix.


Old 10-28-2015, 06:14 AM
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Nice install/solution. Looks good!
Old 10-28-2015, 09:02 AM
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Thanks! Time will tell. If this doesn't work I'll be making a change to another brand's front brackets, joints & upper links.



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