Broken Fatman Control Arm!!

[svono50]

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Fatman Fabrications has been doing custom suspensions for rods and antique cars for a LONG time (nearly 25 years). They're not a fly-by-night single room shop, but a large custom suspension parts factory that employs something like 40 folks. If anyone can do this kind of work safely, they can. But if they can't, then no one can.
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I would be careful with a statment like that one. ALL OEM's make occasional mistakes and an OEM has how many folks working for them and for how long have they been around?? Truth is, any company can make mistakes, their swaybar link design is just that...a mistake. Luckily the mistake's end result wasn't a catasrophic one!

I don't think anyone is calling Fatman "crap" or "fly by night", it just appears that they didn't fully understand the application and its mechanics fully to design a robust part. Also consider their 'normal' clientele...rods and antique cars. Those vehicles aren't used for daily driving or the amount of use/abuse you are putting your car through. Just my $0.02, YMMV.