I’ve had the Durango lifted for about 5years. I have 60,000 mile on the tires. I started having problems with every other lug wearing. I replaced upper and lower ball joints, inner and outer tie rods, pitman and idler arm, and shocks all needing to be replaced. Now I’m getting diagonal wear on front tires is the from the lift or is the bushings needing to be replaced? Also leaf springs are weak and need to be replaced. I over loaded them many times. I’m looking at General Springs 2250lbs springs or ATS 2400lbs springs. Has anyone used either of these and are the worth the money?

 

When is the last time it's been professionally aligned?

 

an alignment would also be my first check, however keep in mind that lifting the vehicle will cause a camber change in the front which will affect tire wear (for the worse)

a picture of the wear is likely more helpfull than attempting to describe it with text (a picture really is worth a thousand (or more) words in this case)

 

 

I hope this helps. They were wearing for a while I did get a alignment last year after I replaced all the parts. So I don’t know if it left over or still doing it. I Do love the lift but I also thought about bringing it back down. I think that may have also helped with the leaf spring weakening from hauling loads. I may be wrong I don’t know. It never got loose until I hauled a bunch of stone and wood.

 

Where was it aligned? Every time I've gotten an alignment they have given me a before and after print out of the vehicles alignment specs according to the alignment rack. That way I could see where it was off, and also that's it's been corrected.

​​​​​It may be different in person, but in the pictures that doesn't look too bad. Just a wee bit of abnormal wear. So it look like the outsides of the tires are just a little more worn? Maybe the alignment wasn't right to begin with, or it simply needs it again?
Either way, if you haven't done any work that would affect it since it's last alignment a year ago, and everything is tight and appears to be in good shape I would probably have the alignment checked again. Some places will check it for free.

​​​​​​If you do end up visiting another alignment rack, get the print outs!
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i concur, those pictures actually look pretty good to me, not seeing anything that would really raise an alarm over here.

 

I wasn’t sure if it is remnants from before or still wearing funny. I take it to my uncles for an alignment. They don’t have the computer or what ever the big shops use.

 

Now onto the springs. Does putting the lift shackles on make it so not as much weight can be hauled? I’ve haul half ton or more of stone and wood several times and now the rear end is loose. The springs aren’t bad, but they don’t look like they did when I put the shackles on. I’d like to put heavy duty springs on, if I do can I still use the lift shackles or should I put the old ones back on?

 

Longer shackles will compromise control of the rear when there is a lot of weight back there. Rearched springs, (or lift springs) with stock length shackles *might* improve things, but, simply by lifting the truck, regardless of method, you are altering suspension geometry.....