Recent content by fullm3taljacket

*Updated on both forums The least expensive shop told me that that cost ($875 OTD) did include the alignment, but that the lower ball joints would be considerably more...taking it to about $1450 for the total replacement of the pitman arm, idler arm, upper control arms, upper and lower ball...

So I finally got around to getting some quotes with itemized lists. I told each shop that I needed pitman and idler arms replaced along with both control arms (which each come with their own socket joints). I asked for Moog Problem Solver everything, but Moog no longer makes control arms for...

WOW...I feel like I was about to get completely taken if they didn't even need to attack the rivets, because they were going to! With all of the front end work you mention, would the $1100 price tag sound more reasonable or are we still talking about more than is reasonable?

Raiderron, Thank you very much. So you are saying that the mechanic wouldn't even have to deal with the rivets if he replaced the arms? And that by default, the time it would take to do this would be less (thus making the cost less) but he was going to charge me for the full time/cost as if...

Lesterl, Thank you for the reply. I try not to be a cynic, so might it be possible that it made a lot of sense to replace the arms at the same time, since the truck is at (an original) 125K miles? It's my understanding that the main labor cost (time) is in removing the rivets, so if this is...

Alright, a little background...I am not a mechanic and never will be. I have done some research both here and the sister site (Tahoe Yukon Forum) where this will be posted as well, verbatim. After an 800 mile trip, I had an oil change done to my '99 Tahoe and discovered that the boots were...