Lift Help...poor angles
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From: Red Oak, Tx
Well look at a stock truck angles compared to yours. You will see how it drops down more causing it to wear faster. When you raise your truck the front upper control arm will hit the coils but when you don't have a leveling kit it won't do that. Same goes for the half shaft. Its like a lift and a driveshaft. The bigger you go the worse the angles are and easier to brake something.
And, anytime some thing is pushed beyond its stock limits, it WILL wear faster. If your like me and you like the leveling kit, apparently the only thing to do if replace the components with better more heavy duty ones when they wear out.
For example, new uppers with 1" ball joints (this is badass btw) and very stout tie rods.
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From: Kansas
Yeah I understand the angle on the on the half shaft wearing faster as it is a part that rotates. The steeper angle requires more tortional force to move it and causes more stress at the joints, but the ball joint is just a ball and socket. Even though the a arm is at a much different angle compared to stock, the ball is still in the socket and still has room for travel. The ball joint only has an upward force applied to it so where does the added force come from by changing the angle?