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Jul 23, 2011 | 05:56 AM

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Maxium4x4

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I have about everything I need from the old Dana 44 days, I could do those in my sleep, but with age comes wisdom or lack of motivation.

$300 for labor including the alignment and the shop does quality work, how could I say No.

Jul 23, 2011 | 11:36 AM

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FI460

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That's a sweet deal. I'd have gone that route too if I was quoted $300... I got lucky and had a friend who used to be a front end/suspension mechanic in the Bay Area and he had everything we needed. The digital Snap On torque wrench was very helpful

Jul 23, 2011 | 04:03 PM

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I got the good old 1200.00 for everything deal of my life

I said no thanks

I would have took that deal to John

Jul 23, 2011 | 04:19 PM

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I got the good old 1200.00 for everything deal of my life

About what I spent but we replaced more than ball joints.

Jul 23, 2011 | 05:58 PM

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I need to do my drag link like you did the boot is junk but it didnt have any play

I dont know if I can get it close enough to not need the alinment if I did the drag link
Its amazing a half a turn one way or the other can make it or break it

I hope they didnt skimp on quality on my BJ I went with Moogs part of that decision was the lifetime warrentyand the fact lots of guys here used them I didnt know about quality control issues

Jul 24, 2011 | 08:11 AM

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Originally Posted by FI460

I just did mine about a month ago. When I was researching it the Motorcraft greasable balljoints were pretty popular. Parts Guy Ed has them for a pretty good price.

I dont know if you've done balljoints before or not Bismic, but I just want to say that it really isnt as bad a job as I was led to believe. Now that I've done it I could do it again in no time.

I didn't see the greaseable ones listed for 2005+ on his website. I'm still waiting to hear back from him as I'd like to get Motorcraft as well.

Jul 24, 2011 | 03:01 PM

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I didn't see the greaseable ones listed for 2005+ on his website. I'm still waiting to hear back from him as I'd like to get Motorcraft as well.

I also didnt know that they made a greasable motorcraft ones till 2 days after I had bought the Moogs

from what I seen on oreilys the motorcraft ones were about the same as Moogs in price
Moog also had a liftime warrenty dont know about the motorcraft ones

how much did Ed want for a set of both upper and lower BJ
I should have at least got my axel seals and stuff from Ed you just cant beat his prices on most stuff

Jul 26, 2011 | 12:26 AM

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Bismic, I am totally jealous. Will be good to hear how you like them. I know when there were discussions in the past I leaned towards the Dynatrac's.

www.dynatrac.com