Reps to Roland (Mueckster) for helping out a fellow FTE brother.
My truck has been long overdue for ball joints, but I just didn't have the time to get em done before my trip here to Texas.
Not to worry, Mueckster to the rescue...
Roland offered up his help, his garage, and his tools to help me replace all four ball joints, and add a leveling kit to my truck before my long 1100 mile trip back to Florida pulling my camper.
I would also like to thank Costa (Redboat) for emailing me pics, and tech support from his leveling kit install, Big Joe (flatbeder) also for tech support, and for helping talk me into the kit after seeing pics of his truck.
and Richard (deluxe06) for the great writeup on changing 2wd ball joints.
Thanks to everyones help, the job went smooth.
Here are a some pics of the install.

 

Here are a few action shots of Roland and I getting working...
Doing a little grinding for the upcoming alignment.

 

After the grind, and the blocks going in...

 

Makes a big difference, doesn't it Frank...looks great. Roland's a great fella, had the pleasure of meeting him too, nice job Roland and reps to you guys..

 

finishing up, and the final product....
Reps Roland....

 

Thanks for the kind words, Mike.
You're quite welcome, Frank. It wasn't too bad of a job at all. It never seems like work when you're helping a fellow member/brother. Glad to be of help.

 

Just keep an eye in your mailbox....

 

Looks really good Frank, injoy . Roland reps to ya for helping out a fellow FTE Brother.

 

man that lift looks good. glad everything went well.
and yes roland is a good guy.
iv been down after my surgary and he came spent the day hanging out and looking at my truck. i did not know my balljoints were bad but he could see one tire leaning in. and sure enough they were bad. iv been checking prices, so it will be awhile before i can fix them. but i need to heal up some more before i can crawl around under the truck
good luck on the trip and be safe.

 

I got you on reps to Roland. Good guy! Glad to hear you got some much needed work done.

 

So then these lift blocks aren't just a bolt on dealio, there be grindin etc...to do, do the instructions forewarn you or do y'all just know this from experience?

 

From what I have read, the grinding is on a truck to truck basis. My truck looked like it could have been aligned with out doing the grinding, but since it was apart I just did it to error on the side of caution.
It beats tearing back into it after the alignment shop calls with bad news.
I'll find out tomorrow if I ground enough......

 

Good thing you got that brush guard or I wouldn't be able to tell the difference in you or ricks truck! Haha

 

going to have to update your profile pic now Franko. Looks good and reps to Roland. Still looks easier than installing one on a 4x4.

 

Looks good and great detail, Roland rep police intervened..... you know the story.