Good advice on truck suspensions
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Good advice on truck suspensions
Digging around for info, I found this:
https://www.thurenfabrication.com/te...-handling.html
This thread may be useful to the Ram truck folks too, didn't really know where to put it.
I found this particularly interesting:
https://www.thurenfabrication.com/te...-handling.html
This thread may be useful to the Ram truck folks too, didn't really know where to put it.
I found this particularly interesting:
Ball joints are a touchy subject on these Dodge Rams. We hear it SO often, that with 15,000 miles on the truck, customers are being told by repair shops that their ball joints are already worn out. I have really never seen OEM Mopar ball joints with less that 75,000 miles, that NEEDED to be replaced, and I have seen ball joints with 200,000 miles that were fine. The main confusion is vertical movement through the joints. Vertical movement through the ball joints is totally normal, and the truck comes off the dealer lot like this. Lateral/side-to-side slop is what we don't want, and what should be checked for. I can't tell you how often shops will put a pry bar under the knuckle, show the customer the vertical play, and maybe unknowing, sell a big money job that does not need to be done. Maybe they do know what they are doing. Hard to say. Just be careful and smart on this.
