I had purchased a set of Currie's large "Johnny Joints" fashioned into rod ends for use in a rear coil suspension, but decided to make some adjustable front lower control arms with them instead. The Currie joints had 1"x18 bolts already welded to the swivel housings, so I only had to thread some tubing for that end of the arms. 1 ¼"x0.1875" wall DOM tubing has the correct inner diameter to allow tapping for the joints without doing any machining. I had already purchased a 20' length of that for around $50 from a local machine shop for the rear suspension, so I used two chunks for the front arms instead. I was already running Rancho lower control arms, so I just cut the ends off of one arm to use as the other ends of my new arms. Between the four bushings on the Rancho arms, I had two complete sets in OK condition that I would use in the new arms. After cutting the tubing to length and grinding some notches to fit the bushing tubing, I welded the arms together. I then brought them to the machine shop for them to thread. After a little paint, I had adjustable swiveling lower control arms!

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