So my shortened uca started making noise about 3 months ago and when I checked them about 2 weeks ago(while raising the height of the car) they had a good lot of movement in the busing/bearing.
I still had a set of ebay uca that did not get much mileage so I decided to do a version 2 of my shortened uca, but this time I use a "jig" to make sure the two where the same length. not that the others were not, but one was more difficult to install than the other, it might have not been welded on straight and had a slight angle to it.
I took my time with the welding and actually got them finished a lot faster than before, Did not have to over with a grinder to clean up shit welds.
You can see the "jig" under the control arms, those tabs are where the front of the uca bolt to.
Shows the quality of these cheap arms, was sent two different manufacture arms, one has a hole on the bottom, the other doesn't, also had to grind one of them to fit.
I thought of throwing this pic on here to reference the height of the LCA brace.