JBA Upper Control Arms

While Moog has production in China they also have American Manufacturing.
While Moog Chinese stuff is well Chinese stuff their American manufactured stuff and even their Mexican manufactured stuff have given me zero issues and been great quality.

Like the poster above when I contacted SPC I was told the UCAs were a complete American manufactured item.
SPC has been in the game for nearly 50 years and has a very good reputation and all the SPC products I have used outperformed factory.
I don’t particularly think they would tell the other poster and myself a fabrication.

JBAs are most certainly a great unit as well but some folks need an adjustable setup which is something that JBA does not offer.

 

Yes sir they cnc the actual balljoint and they have there own molding to make their own JBA lube bushings, they send there balljoints out to get cerakote oven cured and also they get them cryoed, so u know it's tough

 

From their website, not sure how current but...
JBA:
We machine all the ball joint parts and bushing bongs

We cut and bend all the tubing

We weld all the control arms

We out source the laser cutting & powder coatinglocally in PA.

Our bushings are custom made for JBA Offroad by an Australian based company.

Our ball joint boots are custom made for JBA Offroad by a company outside of Pittsburgh PA

 

Hehe…Australian based company in China probably.

 

Lol yes everything is made by them and everything is put on the CMM and inspected thoroughly, except the cerakote oven cure and the cryogenic testing, those steps are outsourced that's why delivery is taking so long

 

Dawg they make there own bushing in house, they outsourced there bushing back in the day but not anymore because there was problems.

 

It’s says bushings are from Australia, my post from website above.
I have a set btw, great so far, only 1200 miles on but installed and aligned great.

 

I've been in contact with JBA for the past 2 months on 3 different sets of upper control arms I've ordered for different trucks and they have never said that and I don't see that on the website, it is there own design patent pending "Synthetic Elastomer"

 

90 Deg. range of motion the biggies range in the market, Designed for Offroad use, Rebuild-able joint, MADE IN USA!! includes 1 hardware pack.

 

Idk, googled it and was from their site. Maybe was old. Doesn’t bother me either way, I bought em and love em so far.

 

Ya they are the best on the market and there reverse mounted ball joint with adapter is some great engineering I really like the thought that went into these

 

Ordered mine early April..Every week they keep telling me that they will ship the following week. Getting old pretty fast, but i am trying to hang on. Everything else is ready to go. Itching to install my lift, UCAs and wheels/tires.

 

What day did u order in april??

 

April 15.

 

Lol I ordered a pair for a 03 tundra on the 16th they are 30 to 40 days out me and u are going to get ours shipped out on Tuesday, they are getting the bushing back from cryo on Monday

 

I mean use what u want it don't matter to me all I know is moog is not focused on automotive industry, they are focusing on government contracts now were the real money is at for them. Most of there production is Chinese made, they use to make stuff here for automotive not anymore dude, I would not rely on Chinese labeled quick production and quick inspected parts like LBJ and UBJ and LCA and UCA that can cause a catastrophic failure and be bad for u in the end to be on my vehicle. Like I said bit the bullet and by the best. I do 5 axis and 3 axis machining everyday for spaceX rockets and satellites, quality and thorough inspection on a CMM is not somthing that a Chinese manufacture is doing. Just saying better parts better piece of mind, there is a whole group with like 10k members on Facebook for 1st gen tundra LBJ failure dude most of the time it's Moog or off brand LBJ's or old oem parts with lots of miles.

 

With ur moog lowers push out the moog bushings and buy siberian bushing all around better

 

And ur right JBA is not adjustable but if ur not going over 4 inches on a lift there is no need for the SPC setup, JBA is good for a 2" to 4" lift already pre set and they have a one of a kinda ball joint to upper control arm mount and adaptor set up tested adjustments, u are not going to make the SPC adjustment beat a JBA's engineers already 100% tested for like 7 different vehicles and different year, it doesn't make sense

 

Man I really hope you're right..I don't know how much longer I can wait. My current tires don't have much life left.
They told me the same, waiting on the rubber boots.

 

Ya they getting 2 shipments on Monday and after inspection they will be shipped out Tuesday

 

What kind of caster #s are you guys seeing? I’m at 3.5° and being told I am maxed out. Anyone able to squeeze out more?

 

There is a whole forum with some guy named jberry that know everything about 1sg gen tundra camber caster and toe adjustment

 

Did you get a shipping confirmation this morning??

 

Did u??

 

Yes sir. I did.

 

Fuck I'm a day after u so maybe I will get mine tomorrow

 

Hell ya I just got my shipping/tracking info

 

There y’a go!! Double cabs take a little bit longer hahahaha jk

 

I'm going to press the JBA upper control arm bushing out and replace with Siberian bushing

 

I just ordered a set for my 2010 Tundra, the HD ones like the website states for 2007+. Anyway, I spoke with customer service about time frames for delivery, they just told me to order the UCA's with the "Classic Boot" (rubber) and they could be shipped by the end of the week. When the poly boots come in, they will send me those at no charge. I thought that was fair and the fact they provided an alternative to waiting 30 plus days for a set made with the poly boot material was clutch since my install date for my suspension is 2 weeks away.