Front suspension control arm installation??

[MTnickmck]

Hey there,

Any of you guys performed installation on upper and lower control arms for m-series sled? Seems to me the lower arm mounting nuts are near impossible to access as they are burried? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

NM

 

[sledtahoe]

arm

long socket or extension should get it.

 

[BEARTOOTHBLACKCAT]

u have to pull out the air box, pull off the nose the take the plastic skid off u get to the from the bottom i got sick of taken all of it apart so i cut 2 little holes in the skid so in the future i could stick a wrench in the hole to back the bolt then put an aftermarket skid plate on so then if something happened and needed to change them i just pulled the skid plate much easier than hood nose airbox blah blah

 

[BEARTOOTHBLACKCAT]

long socket or extension should get it.

and how do you go about that

 

[Treebuster]

The only thing ive had to take off is the lower skid plate, its got those little tork screws in it. Then the long socket or extension should do it.

 

[MTnickmck]

arms

That is unbelievable on the design! Looks like the right side nut is accessable with ratchet extension after pulling the can off. The left is a different story! I like the strategy of pulling skid plate off once, drilling holes in factory plastic plate so access is simple then riveting skid plate back on when complete. Sucks regardless. Arctic r & d should be able to do better than that on design.

 

[cat rider]

I removed the skid plate as well, and the front nose to get at the bolts. It's so much easier that way!

 

[BEARTOOTHBLACKCAT]

we ride hard and between me and my buddies we have 4 ms and i always get stuck doin it u can believe ive cut holes in all of them and i would much rather cut rivets out than take the whole front apart i can take the a arms out in about ten min upper and lower both sides with my cheater holes i forgot to have my dealer do it on my new sled before the put the skid on