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ZAG 10-09-2002, 01:42 PM I fucking hate this!!!! my balljoints are jumping off.........PERKELE some help!!!!!!!!!!! http://www.phnet.fi/public/mika.jussilainen/kuvat/gaz/gazhinaus.jpg :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: urjb 10-09-2002, 01:52 PM COOL truck:D I'd need a little more background on the subject to be helpful tho. ZAG 10-09-2002, 02:26 PM Originally posted by urjb COOL truck:D I'd need a little more background on the subject to be helpful tho. first time i was in the rocks and i dropped my tire to hole and balljoints popped out. second time i was hammering in mudpit and same shit.... the snaprings are holding. balljoint goes to two pieces. my english is very bad. but i hope you get it...........:confused: 4Bangler 10-09-2002, 02:35 PM Low quality ball joints? Are you sure your axle joint isn't breaking and the shaft ears popping the joints out? What kind of truck is that anyway, looks like an old Dodge M-37 military truck, very cool. I hate to say this, but are you sure you're installing them right? The only balljoints I've seen pop without a broken shaft popping them were on a 3/4 ton Blazer with 38.5's on 15x14 wheels, and he was pulling on a stuck truck with very good traction and the front end was hopping off the ground a good 3 feet or so (about 1 meter :flipoff2:) Even then, only the lower ball joint seperated, but resulted in a bent knuckle, I've got it on video, it's pretty cool. ZAG 10-09-2002, 02:51 PM Originally posted by 4Bangler Low quality ball joints? Are you sure your axle joint isn't breaking and the shaft ears popping the joints out? What kind of truck is that anyway, looks like an old Dodge M-37 military truck, very cool. I hate to say this, but are you sure you're installing them right? The only balljoints I've seen pop without a broken shaft popping them were on a 3/4 ton Blazer with 38.5's on 15x14 wheels, and he was pulling on a stuck truck with very good traction and the front end was hopping off the ground a good 3 feet or so (about 1 meter :flipoff2:) Even then, only the lower ball joint seperated, but resulted in a bent knuckle, I've got it on video, it's pretty cool. the body is russian military truck gaz-69. http://www.phnet.fi/public/mika.jussilainen/kuvat/KorpitrialVII/KorpitrialVIIjakso5-4.jpg P|n-BaLL 10-09-2002, 05:55 PM Zag your english is fine, probably better than mine. If you tell us what axle the ball joints failed on, we may be able to help more. The Dana 44 axle as an example requires a very specific pre load setting to insure maxium life from the ball joint. That and if you know what brand you have been using that may help as well. NoRM also Zag that is one cool ride :) BillaVista 10-09-2002, 07:11 PM Not to be presumptuous, but there may be some help, installation and spec wise, in my pdf collection: http://www.rightcoastcrawler.com/billaVista/PDFs/FEDERAL_MOGUL_4X4_BALLJOINT.PDF http://www.rightcoastcrawler.com/billaVista/PDFs/MOOG_BALL_JOINT_SPEC_CHART.PDF http://www.rightcoastcrawler.com/billaVista/PDFs/MOOG_TECH_BULLETIN_JEEP_BAL.PDF 4Bangler 10-10-2002, 07:11 AM A Gaz was actually going to be my next guess, very, very cool. P|n-ball didn't read thread title, but he's correct, the upper ball joint sleeve needs to be torqued properly, BillaVista's pdf files are quite good, and are now in my reference file. urjb 10-10-2002, 09:18 AM I'd have to guess one of 4 things is happening... You're definitely "Gettin' It". maybe too much.:D The axle goes first and takes the rest with it (not uncommon). Somthing is fawked and you not seein' it. Improper installation ...Just my $.02 Eric Oh yeah, ....Cool truck ZAG 10-10-2002, 12:44 PM Originally posted by P|n-BaLL Zag your english is fine, probably better than mine. If you tell us what axle the ball joints failed on, we may be able to help more. The Dana 44 axle as an example requires a very specific pre load setting to insure maxium life from the ball joint. That and if you know what brand you have been using that may help as well. NoRM also Zag that is one cool ride :) I had the torgues for the balljoints.......maybe it was the shaft.. now i have the moog balljoints maybe they hold..... TNToy 10-10-2002, 03:18 PM AFAIK Moog is the best. Although I should note that a buddy of mine races tough truck competitions, which is very hard on the axle because the constantly jump the trucks 3 feet in the air. He ran a set of Moog joints and destroyed them in one race. If I remember correctly, he figured out that it was because they were 1-piece, or all-metal, or something like that, and although they were very hard, they eventually bent and failed after several hard jumps. The cheapy parts-store replacements lasted much longer (several weekend of racing) because they simply bent & sprang back into shape. Kind of the grade-8 versus grade-5 argument. For Ball joints. :D | |