I got the RE adjustable upper control arms on my 98 XJ, now on the side that mounts to the axle, the new bolts that i put through, have alot of slop in them. I put the orig bolts back though and still the same. Its real bad I can feel and see the axle moving and hear it clicking.

The bushing in the axle housing was ok before removing the control arm. The collar has small dimples in it, so its not smooth so like a bigger bolt can just slid in here.

All bolts are tight, i swear that its the smaller bolts, but why hasn't this happened before?

Any one else have feelings about this?

Make sure the RE joint doesn't have a bigger hole than what the sleeve in the bushing will allow. It sounds like that is your issue. The RE control arm has oversized holes. You could have somebody drill some small plates with the correct size holes and weld them onto the RE Arms, or even go ghetto and weld a washer over it. A friend of mine had this issue with his RE trackbar. The hole in the trackbar bushing was bigger than the hole in the factory axle mount. He wound up drilling a larger hole through the bracket and then I made him a nut with a handle like the OEM trackbar nut and we swapped out to the larger bolt size. It was a matter of the RE bushing being sized for a standard bolt and the OEM bolt was metric and a little bit smaller.

My feelings.....

I felt this post belongs in non-hardcore...:flipoff2:

Just put a bolt that fits in there...

Dutch - thanks for actually replying. The hole on the arms are slightly smaller than the bushings sleeve hole. Now the sleeve has small dimples in it that make it not smooth and incapable of a larger bolt sliding through.

Im thinking of just drilling the sleeve smooth and trying to get a larger bolt through, then i would have to drill through the hardened steel of the CTRL arms too?

I was hoping there was another way...