Nissan Leaf Lower Control Arm Replacement - DIY

First failure after 7 Years of ownership, the Nissan Leaf lower control arm ball joint has failed.

In this video I will be replacing the front right lower control arm, including a new ball joint, and I'm doing it at home in my garage DIY style.

I figured it would be better, easier, and not that more expensive, to change the whole suspension arm as I don't have a bushing press and you really need to press it straight if you were to reuse the control arm. A little of and you would need a new control arm either way.

When you are doing this remember to buy new bolts for the ball joint end, and new bolts for the inner ends if needed. But the outer bolt is definitely needed.

The car would need an wheel alignment after this job. I didn't do that because I thought the left would fail soon. It haven't yet, and I'm still driving with no alignment done and the tires are not getting wearing issues. 😉

I will be looking into changing out the left hand side one and then go for an alignment, finally.

I will try to get some spring clamps that fit and do a bit more research on what is the instruction for doing this job at Nissan.

Disclaimer: I'm not a mechanic. :) So any thing you see in this video or text that I write is to be used at your own risk. Be safe.


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