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I am doing the passenger side ball joints and hub assembly this coming weekend so I bought a new one from Auto Zone for $167 and thought I'd share some pics. Look real nice and came with the studs and yellow o-ring as well. Too bad they stapled through the o-ring and broke it.
I'd advise against doing just one side too. In order to do it right, you should get an alignment after replacing a ball joint(s). Save up and do it all at once, then get it aligned.
I was just looking at doing the passenger side on mine and use the timken one also. My drivers was replaced in summer of 2010 from an accident I was in. When I had it apart doing a brake job, I noticed that the passenger one doesn't wanna roll near as easy as the drivers one does. I think I can feel it sometimes when I take off from a stop sign or red light. Feels like a slight " hesitation" or something before the truck wants to move. Very little and only sometimes though.
Since yours is a 2001, what thread pitch did you order? Mine is an 04, and I took one of my lugnuts to advance and it threaded right onto the 14x 1.5 . I thought the 1.5 was the coarser of the 2, compared to the 2.0 and I thought after a certain year they changed to the finer thread?
Since yours is a 2001, what thread pitch did you order? Mine is an 04, and I took one of my lugnuts to advance and it threaded right onto the 14x 1.5 . I thought the 1.5 was the coarser of the 2, compared to the 2.0 and I thought after a certain year they changed to the finer thread?
They changed to fine about 02?. Look on ebay to get the specs