Upper control arms eibach kit

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Jasfish18

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I'll try to make this story as short as I can.

Installed eibach kit lowest level, got just about 2 inches all the way around. Love it btw.

My ball joints started pulling out right away, so decided to pony up the bucks and get zone uca.
After waiting for 8 weeks and needing my truck to put a couple 1000 miles on, amazon prime shipped me the mevs, slapped em on, alignment and go. Seems to ride good to me, castor is on the high side of ok. Dealership didn't seem overly concerned about that.

A week after all this, zone show up......
What will I gain by going zone? My options are sell zone, wait till mev fail and go zone, or just get right back into it and change em out now.

What you guys think?
 

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Zone are angle correcting. The mevotech are not. I think the zone actually help give you more down travel as well since they are angled for leveled trucks. The mevotech are just a beefed up version of the stock arms. You should be ok with mevotech though since the ball joint shouldn’t pop out.
 

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If you're not into offroading and 2" front is all you need then you can recover the cost returning the Zone UCA's.
But since you're asking i'll say though you'll gain future proofing and better alignment specs assuming one day you'll set the struts in the higher notches :) I wouldn't think twice about it. I ordered Zone UCA's right when i did place the order with my Rancho 2" QL's, It's a natural reflection in me to do UCA's with a 2" or more IFS lifted application. I started at 2" couple of years ago and i'm around 2.75" now. Caster can be used to your advantage here and that's one of the benefits of Zone over Mevotech. I was running AND offroading 37's not too long ago because of it without a bracket lift or any metal cutting literally with 2.5-2.75" of lift. Function and how you intend to drive your application can change your approach to the question of whether or not you want/need aftermarket UCA's.

Have fun.
 

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What did you do with the zone upper control arms?
 

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