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<blockquote data-quote="BenBB" data-source="post: 1258651" data-attributes="member: 20185"><p>Thanks bigrig I appreciate it!!! I hate having to stop in the middle of a teardown just because you have to go buy/borrow/scrounge that one random socket size lol!</p><p></p><p>My truck was well worn in when I got it at 152k miles so I knew going in it would sound like an old Chevy with a 55-gallon drum of bolts rolling around in the bed...and I was right. Clunks abounded in the frontend, and I think the biggest indicator of both upper & lower balljoints is just that clunk going over pavement cracks where the shocks don't even come into play, you can just hear the joint pop taking up the slack and the suspension doesn't even react.</p><p></p><p>I wound up replacing the UCA's shortly after the lower balljoints and that took care of 99% of the clunks from the front end. I rebuilt the shocks and could have replaced the lower bushings but they looked good and I'll do that next time, for now it's smooth and quiet on the horrible roads around here, and I know it's tight when I leave the pavement <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/favorites13.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":favorites13:" title="Favorites13 :favorites13:" data-shortname=":favorites13:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BenBB, post: 1258651, member: 20185"] Thanks bigrig I appreciate it!!! I hate having to stop in the middle of a teardown just because you have to go buy/borrow/scrounge that one random socket size lol! My truck was well worn in when I got it at 152k miles so I knew going in it would sound like an old Chevy with a 55-gallon drum of bolts rolling around in the bed...and I was right. Clunks abounded in the frontend, and I think the biggest indicator of both upper & lower balljoints is just that clunk going over pavement cracks where the shocks don't even come into play, you can just hear the joint pop taking up the slack and the suspension doesn't even react. I wound up replacing the UCA's shortly after the lower balljoints and that took care of 99% of the clunks from the front end. I rebuilt the shocks and could have replaced the lower bushings but they looked good and I'll do that next time, for now it's smooth and quiet on the horrible roads around here, and I know it's tight when I leave the pavement :favorites13: [/QUOTE]
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