i just recently changed my control arms and went to do the driver side after everything went smooth on the pass side.i loosen the bolts and put the new control armin.i got to tighten the last 3 bolts where the plate holds up the back of the control arm adn i come to find out that its stripped.whats can i do now?is that like part of the sub frame or am i screwwed?

 

What's stripped? Threads on the bolt messed up or the threads where it screws in?

 

Drill & Tap new threads

 

the vbolts are fine its the thread on the car where the bolts screw into.one of my friends said if might be able to get a new sub frame and ill be good.i dont any web sites trhat would sell big enuff taps

 

Same thing happened to me....I just used a bottlr jack amd jacked the plate against the sub frame and used a mig welder on its highest setting and ran a bead next to where the bolt was spinning to hold the plate to the subframe
the other two bolts hold the rest of the plate.

 

I STILL DONT KNWO WHAT I SHOULD DO.DO ANY1 HAVE A PIC OF THE BOTTEM OF THE CAR TO SEE IF IT CAN BE REPLACED AND IF ITS THE SUBFRAME?

 

I just finished fixing the same problem, only mine was on the passenger side. On that plate that the three screws go through, one screw is short & and the other two are long. the one that spripped was the short one so I took a drill & bit & drilled completly through and bought a 3'' hardned steel bolt, nut & washer & went through the control arm plate & the sub frame. Worked pretty good

 

drill and tap and get a high grade bolt . If its really bad increase to a larger size bolt/tap. You can find a tap that large man but its not going to be a 5$ deal you have to realize that.

 

HAVE ANY LINKS FOR ME OR SHOULD I GET LONGER BOLTS AND NUTS AND DO THAT?

 

longer bolts are not neccessary.

nuts are not necessarry as they are tapped OEM into the subframe.

What you should do first is try and tap the metric thread and see how it goes.

if that does not work, drill and tap it out to what ever the closest size up is.

its not that complicated, the subframe is pretty thick you can re-tap it.

this is not rocket science man


and if you dont have access to a tap set, a small town shop will hopefully hook you up and let you borrow it if you're nice enough if you have any more serious Q's ask.

 

OK BUT NOW WHAT SIZE ARE THOSE 3 BOLTS.CAN YOU PLEASE HELP ME TO AS WHAT SIZE TAP I SHOULD BUY B4 I SPEND MONEY ON THE WRONG ONE.I WAS TRYING TO LOOK IT UP ON GOOGLE BUT IT WAS IN M6,ETC FORM.I THINK THE BOLTS ARE LIKE A 22MM.I DONT KNOW WHAT SIZE THAT WOULD BE IN A TAP.CAN SOME 1 PLEASE HELP.I REALLY DONT Wnt to just mig weld it and god forbid i had to change the control arm again and then its welded on.thanks alot guys