50BMG
Senior Member
I didn't want to hijack Mike's thread regarding the Eibach pro lift struts and spring setup with this question, but I'm pretty sure that's what I'm going to be doing as soon as they become available again. I'm also going to put on either Zone or Ready Lift UCAs while I'm at it...
I recently visited a local, very trusted frame and chassis shop and asked my favorite mechanic, who is also a Ram truck guy, about installing the Eibach setup and he tried to discourage me from doing it.
I explained to him that I planned on going with new UCAs to help account for the different geometry with the truck lifted and he said he thought it would still be difficult for him to get a good alignment.
I know the new UCAs help to provide for a better ball joint angle but aren't UCAs which are made to work with a lifted truck in a specific range of heights also slightly longer to account for the change of arm & wheel angle?
Since Mike's pictures look so good in terms of half shaft angles and everything else I wasn't too concerned about excessive wear with a 2.75 to 3.5 inch lift on the front end. but, my mechanic guy said that all of the parts in the front end including the wheel bearings will probably wear worse with the truck being lifted that way.
OK, tie rod ends, maybe sway bar links, and other items which aren't working at exactly the same angles as they were designed to with a lift I can see wearing a bit more. But Wheel bearings? Really? How could that be if I retain the stock wheels and only slightly larger than stock tire size?
Anyone?
Bueller?
I recently visited a local, very trusted frame and chassis shop and asked my favorite mechanic, who is also a Ram truck guy, about installing the Eibach setup and he tried to discourage me from doing it.
I explained to him that I planned on going with new UCAs to help account for the different geometry with the truck lifted and he said he thought it would still be difficult for him to get a good alignment.
I know the new UCAs help to provide for a better ball joint angle but aren't UCAs which are made to work with a lifted truck in a specific range of heights also slightly longer to account for the change of arm & wheel angle?
Since Mike's pictures look so good in terms of half shaft angles and everything else I wasn't too concerned about excessive wear with a 2.75 to 3.5 inch lift on the front end. but, my mechanic guy said that all of the parts in the front end including the wheel bearings will probably wear worse with the truck being lifted that way.
OK, tie rod ends, maybe sway bar links, and other items which aren't working at exactly the same angles as they were designed to with a lift I can see wearing a bit more. But Wheel bearings? Really? How could that be if I retain the stock wheels and only slightly larger than stock tire size?
Anyone?
Bueller?