Tuff Country Upper Contro Arms

Magnum11 · October 1, 2021

I'm putting a 3" level kit on my truck and changing upper control arms at the same time. The problem I ran into is after I removed the stock cast arms and tried to install the new Tuff country arms they didn't fit into the brackets on the truck. I checked the part number of the new arms to make sure I didn't order the wrong ones, they are correct for my truck. Measuring the stock arms, they are 13 1/4" to the outside. The tough Country arms are 13 3/4" to the outside. I called the place I bought them from and the tech guy said I needed to spread the brackets wider on the truck and that this happens all the time. Strange, because every video I see online never mentions spreading the brackets wider. I have contacted Tuff Country directly and they are supposed to be looking into it. Has anybody ran into this problem or am I completely overlooking something?

dieselfan1 · October 1, 2021

Did you send tuff country those pics ?

Im pretty sure those are not going to fit.

You can't spread the brackets.

That guy is a moron.

I'd return them and spend a little more. Kryptonite, Cognito are the only two I would use.

Magnum11 · October 1, 2021

I did send Tuff Country those pictures. They are still "investigating".

I thought the same thing. They will probably be going back.

MikeBMW · October 2, 2021

5 hours ago, dieselfan1 said:

I'd return them and spend a little more. Kryptonite, Cognito are the only two I would use.

I agree, those two are good. I went with MotoFab UCAs and I'm happy with them om a 3" level and a 1" Bilstein 5100 shock lift.

Edited October 2, 2021 by MikeBMW

dieselfan1 · October 2, 2021

14 hours ago, Magnum11 said:

I did send Tuff Country those pictures. They are still "investigating".

I thought the same thing. They will probably be going back.

Not much to investigate here. They won't fit.

TXcountry · October 3, 2021

Send them back and get Mazzula or dirt king. Wouldnt brother with any other brand except maybe camburg.

Magnum11 · October 12, 2021

I finally got a reply back from Tuff Country. They said I need to bend the brackets on my truck out and if I needed to I could put the control arms in a vice and bend them together a little bit. So after an hour of hammering on my truck I put the arms in the vice and bent them enough to fit. Ha ha, not. I packaged them up and sent them back. Bought some Kryptonite arms and those fit perfectly.