Colorado B/S Thread

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Ran eagle rock with some yotas last night. Surprised how clear the trail was. Autos with gears and lockers was sex. But my overwhelming distaste for these darn bfg a/t's grew exponentially last night. Still had a good time tho. Need to get my steering on tho as I was scared the whole night if the stock junk.

But any of ya wanting to run ER, it's still doable. Altho it's completely different from 7 months ago
 
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I hate replacing ball joints, that is all.
 
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This actually wouldn't make for a bad winter. Tons of snow up high, relatively warm down here. I was actually supposed to be on day 3 of a sledding/ cabin trip right now but getting sick on turkey day took care of that.
 
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Kiefer316 said:
Note to self NEVER buy moog ball joints!
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Yes, I concur, the moog's for twice the cost did not fit correctly. To seat the upper ball joint correctly in the knuckle, the shaft stuck way to far down.
 
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Got pictures? What brand did you install?
 
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Hypoid said:
Please explain.
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Rockken said:
Yes, I concur, the moog's for twice the cost did not fit correctly. To seat the upper ball joint correctly in the knuckle, the shaft stuck way to far down.
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This! The master pro's fit much better then the moogs. Not sure why! There was a slight gap between the knuckle and the upper balljoint when the lower was fully seated.
 
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Sooooooooooo, the upper joint was fully seated and the stud was too long, ORRRRRRRRR, the body of the ball joint did not fully seat in the knuckle?

I'm still not getting the picture.
 
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Upper joint was fully seated in the C, With the lower tightened all the way there was a good 1/4 inch gap between the boot of the upper balljoint and the knuckle.
 
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Kiefer316 said:
Upper joint was fully seated in the C, With the lower tightened all the way there was a good 1/4 inch gap between the boot of the upper balljoint and the knuckle.
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OK.

If you were to tighten the upper first, would the outter knuckle pull up to the boot, or would the taper stop the knuckle from going any further?

I'm trying to figure out what was so different on the set you bought.
 
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It was the taper and the overall length of the shaft. Tightening the nut down caused the nut to be about an 1/8 inch too far screwed on for the carter pin to function correctly and there was still about an 1/8 inch to the grease boot.
 
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big thanks to troy for the sub today, nice to have a lil rumble back

got my steering from josh over at SFF today :thumbup:
just gotta figure out best OAB for tracbar and get it all installed


and for you denver/littleton peeps: went to virgilio's pizza place today, super cool place. pizza was awesome, the garlic knots were to die for and the staff was all really cool. def recommend it to anyone inthe area
 
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Rockken said:
It was the taper and the overall length of the shaft. Tightening the nut down caused the nut to be about an 1/8 inch too far screwed on for the carter pin to function correctly and there was still about an 1/8 inch to the grease boot.
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Thanks Ken, I have the picture now! :)
 
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