How tight should I tighten the bolts that go through my lower control arms? Is there a torque on these or do you just tighten them up tight?

Also how tight should I tighten the bolts that go into the upper A arm shaft?

Thanks.

The nuts that hold the upper a-arm shafts to the tower\brackets are 45-55 ft\lbs each.

The bolt's on the ends of the shafts are called "collar bolts" in the Chassis Service manual and they get torqued to 45 ft. lbs.

The lower a-arm bolts are 85 ft\lbs each.

Thanks alot.
One other thing. I went with stock rubber bushings,and powdercoated my subframe. I sanded the contact area where the bushings contact the subframe but they squeak when I move the lower control arm by hand.
Will this stop? What should I do?

Dont completely tighten the LC arm bolts until all the weight is on them.

You can put some grease on the bushings to help with squeak.

just did mine and just tightened the snot out of them,being a novice at this and figuring that it should be real good and tight i caused my front suspension too bind up.The drivers side was close and the passenger side was way over tightened (too much coffee at that time),it caused the car too move up and down as it should on the drivers side and to hardly move up and down on the passenger side when leaned on it.I had also installed new springs and shocks and at first thought that the "problem" must be there.What a pain in the --s. I was relieved to find that it was as simple as incorrect torque specs.or in my case none.pretty dumb. graemlins/clonk.gif

Don't torque the upper bolts or the lower bolts without having the weight of the car on the suspension.