Upper ball joints.
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Upper ball joints.
I have an 04 f-150 4x4 and i installed a daystar leveling kit 3 months after i got it. The other day I rotated the tires and realized that the upper ball joints are trashed, there is slack in them. The truck only has 31,000 miles on it. Is anyone else with this problem. I believe the problem is the angle the ball joint is at since i installed the spring spacers. Is it possible someone makes some upper control arms that fix this angle? I need help bad.
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From: Ketchikan, AK.
what you need to correct the angle is a longer steering knuckle.... when you go with a 6" lift or higher, they will come with them. otherwise, you just have to replace the joints as needed. unfortunately though, the uppers are only replaceable by changing the whole arm. what size tires are you running? if you have larger tires on, then thats pretty good mileage you got out of the stock joints considering the added leverages from the tires.
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Got about 30K miles out of the balljoints since I installed a 2" autospring leveling kit, and there's no trouble....The truck has 97K miles and 30K of them are with the spacer.
Not sure what a easy fix would be...
Not sure what a easy fix would be...
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I am running 285/70/17 cooper Stt with eagle alloys wheels. I dont want to spend the money on a higher lift cause then i needed bigger tires and my gas mileage is already bad enough. Does anyone produce a longer knuckle? I want the level stance but right now i dont have the money for another lift cause i am going to school. And i surely dont want to go back to the factory stance.
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the arms run for about $150 a pop. I'd say you should replace the uppers on both sides and drive it until she wears them out again...you got 30k the first time, a good aftermarket product should get you al least another 30k miles
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