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- Nov 29, 2021
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- Location
- Oviedo FL
- Ram Year
- 2017 1500 Sport Night
- Engine
- 5.7 Hemi
I have had my lift with eibach front and rear springs/shocks set to 3.5” with zone UCAs that were installed at the same time on since early January.
Last Friday my driver side upper ball joint started squeaking and got worse through the weekend until I figured out what the squeak was and greased it with about 15 pumps of Lucas oil green grease. Problem solved and the noise went away.
It came back this morning after about 150 miles of driving since I put the grease in.. and it looks like the grease zerk pushed all/most of the grease out… I know this because I wipe all excess grease off zerks when I am finished greasing them so that I don’t get grease all over the place.
This is a photo of the UCA this morning. There was no grease on the top of the UCA Sunday afternoon after I had finished greasing the UCA so it looks like all of this grease was pushed backwards out of the zerk over the course of the week hence why my ball joint is making noise again…
What is the solution to this besides greasing the UCA on a weekly basis?
Is it new ball joints from zone or is there a possible manufactured defect meaning id need a new UCA?
Last Friday my driver side upper ball joint started squeaking and got worse through the weekend until I figured out what the squeak was and greased it with about 15 pumps of Lucas oil green grease. Problem solved and the noise went away.
It came back this morning after about 150 miles of driving since I put the grease in.. and it looks like the grease zerk pushed all/most of the grease out… I know this because I wipe all excess grease off zerks when I am finished greasing them so that I don’t get grease all over the place.
This is a photo of the UCA this morning. There was no grease on the top of the UCA Sunday afternoon after I had finished greasing the UCA so it looks like all of this grease was pushed backwards out of the zerk over the course of the week hence why my ball joint is making noise again…
What is the solution to this besides greasing the UCA on a weekly basis?
Is it new ball joints from zone or is there a possible manufactured defect meaning id need a new UCA?