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Good point. Previous owner may not have tightened the upper control arm bolt enough, or it came loose over the years. I will tighten some more and see if this helps. But it seems to me that the bolt should fit fairly snug in the crush tube through the sub frame. Without the control arm mounted, if I just place the bolt in the tube it is loose by about .010 in. This translates into about 0.25 in movement out by the upper ball joint with control arm mounted.
The Jensen manual does not mention anything about bushings in the tube through the sub frame. The tube does not look thick enough to ream out and re-bush it. So short of repalcing the whole sub frame, I'm trying to figure out my options. A brand new bolt may help, but not sure if I can find a high grade one that size. I think I need to devise some way to take some thin wall steel tubing and try to shim the slack between the bolt and the tube. Gary