rear upper control arm difference questions

[the_welfare_wagon]

So my rear upper control arms bushings are shot and im looking into replacing them. Before anyone says it, no im not buying OEM for this and im not going to press out bushings for it.

Ive come across two options on rockauto, One is listed as RWD and the other does not specify however it is 20 dollars more expensive. Are there any actual differences between these two? The pictures provided show no difference that I can visually see.

Can I just use the RWD one? It looks no different than whats currently on the truck and I cant imagine the RWD version having different links, maybe they are not as thick?

Thoughts?

Links to them are below, they are the first two options suspensia and mevotech

1996 TOYOTA 4RUNNER 3.4L V6 Control Arm | RockAuto

 

[spartacus]

So my rear upper control arms bushings are shot and im looking into replacing them. Before anyone says it, no im not buying OEM for this and im not going to press out bushings for it.

Ive come across two options on rockauto, One is listed as RWD and the other does not specify however it is 20 dollars more expensive. Are there any actual differences between these two? The pictures provided show no difference that I can visually see.

Can I just use the RWD one? It looks no different than whats currently on the truck and I cant imagine the RWD version having different links, maybe they are not as thick?

Thoughts?

Links to them are below, they are the first two options suspensia and mevotech

1996 TOYOTA 4RUNNER 3.4L V6 Control Arm | RockAuto

The 2wd are shorter due to the required pinion angle. Courtesy of [MENTION=139000]phattyduck[/MENTION]

 

[Zhehan]

I bought a pair of these recently. I'm impressed with their build quality and the improvement they made to the handling of the truck.

More Information for MEVOTECH CMS861168

Comparison of the stock arms to the Mevotech Supreme arms:

 

[the_welfare_wagon]

The 2wd are shorter due to the required pinion angle. Courtesy of [MENTION=139000]phattyduck[/MENTION]

Thank you!


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[Cocoyraisa]

I bought a pair of these recently. I'm impressed with their build quality and the improvement they made to the handling of the truck.

More Information for MEVOTECH CMS861168

Comparison of the stock arms to the Mevotech Supreme arms:

Is your truck a 4wd or 2wd. I'm having trouble deciding which rear upper control arm I need as the ones in rock auto are not labeled too well

 

[phattyduck]

Is your truck a 4wd or 2wd. I'm having trouble deciding which rear upper control arm I need as the ones in rock auto are not labeled too well

Most posters on here have a 4WD.

If the arms aren't rusted (depends on where you live...), you can just put in new bushings to the stock arms too.

ENERGY SUSPENSION 83133G - available on RockAuto too.

-Charlie

 

[Zhehan]

Is your truck a 4wd or 2wd. I'm having trouble deciding which rear upper control arm I need as the ones in rock auto are not labeled too well

My 4Runner is a 4WD version

 

[gh25_]

Interesting figuring this out now! My 1998 is a 2WD v6 and I didn't want to bother pressing out the old bushings on my old arms so i just bought a set of the Jason Opt Offroad jhonny joint rear arms. When I was putting the links in I was trying to figure out why I couldn't get the upper links to match stock length like the lowers were able to. I couldn't adjust the uppers any shorter to match the OEM length. I thought something was off but put them on anyways. This is a funny way to figure out that the 2WD upper links are shorter. I would have never knew. Phatty duck has always got that secret info.