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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?

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dieselfan1 Senior Enthusiast

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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.

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

 

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

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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