I'm going to be doing the free spin hub conversion and wanting to know what u joints y'all are having the best luck with? Also u joints? I'm thinking spicer on the joints and I've always gone with moog joints but never on a heavy duty truck like this. I really only want to do this job once in the next 100k at least! Thanks for any input..
Yup...you are right about that....they are in the top 5...
1. Dynatrac ball joints:
High strength billet steel and heat treated bodies. Super strong chromoly steel, heat-treated stems.
Fully greaseable on the truck. Heat treated, precision ground stainless steel ball conforms to Military specifications.
Teflon coated internal wear points. Fully-adjustable cup support protects against severe road impacts.
2. XRF
Cold forged ball stud of SAE4140 steel(mid grade steel)
Stud heat treatment for omni-directional strength
Forged housings of SAE1045 steel give XRF ball joints the extra strength to have almost double the stud pull-out strength of our competitors
3. Moog
housings are forged and/or machined from a single block of fine-grain alloy steel
powdered-metal gusher bearing to allow grease to penetrate bearing surfaces
I wouldn't dismiss the OEM balljoints so quickly. I have read nothing but positive reveiws (granted not that many) and they now the OEM's come with zerk fittings at a fair price. I look at it this way; I have a 12 year old truck with over 125k miles, with heavier wheels/tires than it originally came with AND they aren't even greasable AND the the balljoints still have no play in them. Compare this to many posts I've read where Moogs and some others didn't give near the service of the originals. I find alot of the OEM items to be superior to some of the Auto Parts store/aftermarket brands. I am sure the Dynatracs are a hell of a product (they are even US made) If I was running a big lift and tires they might be money well spent, but when mine need replacing, I'll just go back to the originals.
I just replaced my Ball joints with Raybestos Professional Grade Ball Joints. After all my research they seemed to be much better quality than the Moog and with 10K the truck steers like a champ and has 0 play in the joints. The new joints cured the slight death wobble I had
I replaced my whole front end just over a year ago with all moog parts and the whole thing is junk already. Going to go with dynas or xrf or a combination of both this time. got the death wobble going on right now! AGAIN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
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