Front Control Arms 2006 Ford Fusion (Mercury Milan Mazda 6) 

I bought the same kit , same car , it fit perfectly, your easy instructions gave me confidence to do it , lower control arms ball joints were hardest to get off, patience is a must, caution this is a long time consuming job, I walked away a few times , but I was able to finish in about 8 hours total over Labor Day weekend, mind you that I never got in super hurry to finish job

Firestone just quoted me $1,193 just to replace the front left and right lower control arms and the front axle assemblies. Thanks to your video, I'll be tackling this project myself. Thanks so much for sharing. 🙂

I really enjoyed, not only your video, but your demeanour also !! I get kinda frustrated do'in jobs' like this 🙄🔧😬

Quick and clean video! Best I have seen to date; Re:forward lower joint bolt remove - I've seen a universal w/impact

I’m doing this job right now on our 2010. Fought with those lower ball joints for a few days and finally decided to just buy a pair of knuckles from the salvage yard ($50 each, even included hubs). They didn’t come with the brass inserts for the ball joints but Moog sells them separately. I took out the entire old knuckles with both pairs of lower control arms still attached. Much less torching and sledge-hammering required. :)

Great video! Tackling the upper control arms of the wife's MKZ. Looks very similar. Did struts/shocks last year. Lots of clunking going on recently. We're in AZ as well.

I used another jack to lift the spring up .Works perfectly

Very nice video.. it gives me the confidence to tackle mine I'm just starting. Thank you

very good video Scott. thank you!

Wow a lot of work

great video!!

How are the Detroit axle parts holding up?

Will these parts work for a 2011 Ford Fusion se 2.5l

For quick reference (as mentioned in the video), the suspension preload height is 15 7/8".

I believe the knuckle nut is 23 mm. What size pickle fork is that?

It looks like one of your lower control arms was already an aftermarket part (Mevotech). At what mileage did you have to replace these control arms?

do you by chance have a part number for that kit you ordered from 1A Auto. I can't seem to find that kit. I have a 2007 fusion and would like to do the same thing. I can only find the 6 pice with sway bar not upper control arm. Thanks

I have a 2011 Ford Fusion Hybrid and when I turn the steering wheel either way I hear squeaking and a little when driving so I expect that it's bushings.

Great video Scott, I have the same car 2006 SEL fusion, and I got some clunking noises in my suspension, and as a DIYer I would like to ask how long did it take you to the the whole job?

I had the lower control arms replaced at $990. Other parts were bad so to avoid paying a couple grand more I did the work myself. To replace the bearing I needed all of the control arms disconnected from the knuckle. I spent 4 hours mercilessly beating it until the bottom arms came up. It then took another hour to reinstall the knuckle. I revisited the same corner for different parts adding up to 18 total hours of work

Do they last? Long as motorcraft?

Can you give me the torque specs for the upper and lower control arms

So when trying to preload suspension to ride height I come up off jack stands quite a lot to the point of unsafe to me. Any ideas as to why. I don’t see as much travel when watching your videos. Won’t be able to reach all bolts if on ramps I don’t think

Hey Scott were the controll arms shot or could you have just replaced the ball joints exclusively, I’m about to do this job on my fusion but am unsure whether to do arms or just joints

How did you remove the strut

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I don't know if you left out some things this was a really good video but what I hear those lower control arms you did drop the subframe on one. The other lower control arm the bolt from what I hear is right at the transmission and sometimes you have to jack up the transmission to get it out I don't know if you had any issues with getting those bolts out. Thank you for the nice video.

Nice video but can remplace of upper control arm with out take of strut loose ?? Sr

You could have just used another Jack on the bottom to push the spring up. Now your alignment is entirely out of whack

How is the 1a Auto kit holding? Recommend it? Debating on this kit or going with Beck/Arnley (at double the price however).

Is this car a V6? Did you have to lift the engine to get the drivers side center arm rear bolt off?

You got a bit of a oil leak on the pan maybe the gasket looks like it’s been leaking for a bit

14 minutes later, he's still talking and no instruction how to install even one of the parts.

She needs to clean her engine lol... good job