What exactly do LCAB mount to?

[jrusso628]

My parked car was hit by a semi in the front fender, I can see that my lower control arm bushing on that side is sitting about 2 inches lower then the other side. It doesn't appear to be bent drastically enough to be sitting that low, so my only thought is that it pulled where the bushing mounts to. So my question is does the lcab mount directly to the chasis, subframe, or a seperate mounting piece that then mounts to the subframe\chasis? can't find any articles with similair damage.

[spidertri]

It mounts directly to the chassis.

http://syclone.motocrew.com/E36/lcab...delrin1big.jpg

[jrusso628]

Here are some pics first one is the undamaged side second one is the damaged side definitely pulled some, any thoughts on the extent of the damage? i'll try and get some better pics...

[rochey6957]

Is the the metal lollipop thing bent? or the frame/chassis? hard to tell in the pics? I had one completely tear out from the sheet metal during an accident. I Was able to repair it by reshaping the reaming sheet metal, welding a new piece back in and the reattaching a new metal lollipop.

[jrusso628]

Here are some better pics...

[spidertri]

Dang, looks like the threaded insert that is up in the chassis has started to pull out. Not sure how to fix that one.

[jrusso628]

yea it's bazaar, hopefully the insert took the grunt of it... sledgehammer and welding i guess... we'll see.