Time to rebuild Excursion front end and could use some advice on which
ball joints and related parts I should go with.
Thanks

 

XRF. No question.

 

X2. Way better than Moog.

 

X-3 But I'm not close to my million miles yet

 

I may have went XRF having read all the bad stuff lately about Moog quality, but I didnt read it first. That said, I have almost a year on my Moog front end parts to include all the steering components, and they are still nice and tight.

 

XRF is a heavy duty ball joint..you'll be glad you went with XRF and I'm so glad the guys on here talked me out of the Moogs.

 

I did mine before the XRF's became the big thing. I've had Moogs on my front end for 3-4 years now and everything is still tight.

 

WOW, what happened to MOOG. OK, XRF it is, any P/N's. Best place to order these.

Thanks

 

This is what I did. I called them up as well & got $40.00 off. ( I can not remember why )
http://www.ebay.com/itm/XRF-Ford-4x4...xVFgcu&vxp=mtr

 

The Moogs only lasted me 50K but Amazon just sent me a complete new set under warranty. Wish I would have known about the XRF's 5 years ago.

 

I would be satisfied if I get 50k out of it all. Did you grease them very often to include messing with the upper ball joint zirc install each time? Just curious because if they will die sooner either way I won't mess with the upper joint grease procedure anymore. Lol.

 

I greased them every oil change but I don't know how much difference it made.

 

I got mine from the tire club

 

We just did the ball joints on my 02 and we used spicer, the same as original. Don't have to grease them and I figure the originals made it 240,000 miles and only one top one had a little play in it. So if I can get another 200000 out of them and don't have to grease them I will be happy with that. Plus we got them online and they were only 140 bucks delivered to my door.

 

What's so hard about greasing them? My pickup came with a 90* zerk in them and just rotate the axle shaft a bit n grease them. The shaft did rub the zerk a bit but not enough to matter.



Than on my Wagoneer, (SD D60) I put a reg zerk in and use this to grease it.