Recent content by mrjking2000

actually i've got more information now, those may look like hammer marks but they're not. he put the aftermarket springs on and never pulled that lower nut off, just pulled the upper and leaned the knuckle out to swap springs. so it was indeed "as-installed by ford" on the lower ball joint...

so then what we've got here is a failure to replace the one time use lower balljoint nuts, and/or torque them to the required spec. good info!!

scarry stuff especially after i got movement out of mine too.

yeah just going off what i was told but you have a valid point there.

i just finished torquing all my stuff. my upper 3 nuts on the shock tower got about 1/4 turn out of. upper ball joint is uniball on mine and tight, no movement. tie rods tights, sway bar tight, lower ball joint 1/4 turn out of drivers side, 1/8 turn out of passenger side before they got back...

torquing things now, got 1/4 turn out of my lower ball joint nut drivers side before it clicked at 85 pounds.

i'm about to put torque wrench to everything on my bronco just to see what/if anything moves. hopefully nothing.

so then maybe if they were on there, they were not torqued right and was actually able to ratchet themselves off. vehicle was not making any noise at all, been on a few trips and one was multi-day, only noise was when it let go. loud bang followed by rapid drop in passenger side height, at a...

Question for folks, and let's keep it civil here as we're not looking to point blame... Has there been any other documented instances of the 6g fullsize broncos having the lower ball joint nuts back off or fall off? We had a catastrophic failure wheeling this weekend at low speeds on the...

original window here. couple chips in it, but it's barely holding on. when the sun hits it 1st thing in morning or late evening it's hard to see through from all the micro pits in it. 24,000 miles on a 2022 badlands!!

I've usually got a minimum of 2 oil changes on hand for anything i own at a given time. so thankfully i'm good for a bit. hopefully whatever happens corrects sooner than later.

128 miles each direction, or basically 4 hours round trip.

yes you are correct. i did mean hells gate. had every intention of driving it, been offroading my whole life and that was just a nope... maybe next time lol!

I made it all the way to moab once, we did hells revenge day 1. i was going to drive it until i stood at the bottom of it. kinda went, you know, it's day 1. i'd like to enjoy the next 7. so we just watched others for a bit and carried on with the week lol!

my screen has locked up, turns off, and some times turns back on virtually since the day i bought it. i just live with it now lol!