• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    2 months ago

    It’s a picture of the upper control arm when it’s probably the lower ball joint that broke (and not the whole lower control arm)

    • PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee
      141·
      2 months ago

      Almost certainly the ball joint. Exact same thing happened to my 1993 Buick Regal. The difference is my car was worth fixing, even at 250k miles.

    • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      2 months ago

      Yep. My '99 Crown Vic did the same thing… around the 250,000 mile mark. Had it flatbedded to My local mechanic 400 bucks later I was back on the road.

      Good thing this is a truck with similar body-on-frame construction, otherwise that would be really expens…oh wait…

    • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
      61·
      2 months ago

      You are prob right (and prob it’s a design shitshow below too), but if the car was moving the higher ball fucking off could lead to lower ball quitting the job soon after as well.