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nadrojcote Senior Enthusiast

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2.5" rough country level. It's not horrible, but much more harsh than stock.

Have you checked your stops to see if your upper control arms are topping out? If so I would recommend looking into their control arms that I purchased. If not then you could try loosening your upper control arms slowly and see if your bushing move.

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Just wanted to update on this. After installing there I began to notice more and more over time that I was feeling cracks in the road more than I used to. It turns out when installing them I did a step wrong. When tightening the upper control arm alignment cams the control arms should be at the position they will be at when sitting on the ground. I tightened mine with them hanging down. This caused the bushings to be stretched and twisted tightly. I loosened them with my truck sitting on the ground and the sprung to where they should be and now the ride is great!

 

This also made me think about people that are installing level kits. It may be beneficial to loosen the upper control arm bolts when installing them this way you can reset the bushings to their ride positions that will be different than stock.

 

this is a good point and wondered the same thing. when i installed mine i tried to guestimate where the natural position would be and tightened it there. i should probably go back and "relieve" any stress in the bushings it might be holding.

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The only issue I had was the control arms slightly shifted due to the pressure on the bushings letting go when I loosedend them. I had to eye ball them back. Pretty sure I got it though, they only moved a couple mm and I loosened one bolt at a time, then tightened it back up before loosing the next.

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Well, I rushed down to the United States today to pick up my control arms and got them installed. Local dealership was able to fit me in for an alignment but I was so rushed that I didnt get to take any pictures during install. There are a couple issues.

 

1. The aluminum control arms have a threaded hole in them for a bolt to hold on the brake line bracket and the rough country arms are the opposite and have a bolt sticking out of them. They also didn't include the nut.

2. Brake line bolt is in the wrong location and cause the brake line to be too tight, rendering it worthless.

3. The arms did rub the frame a little bit at full compression, I ground it off just a tad to make it not touch.

 

I ended up zip tying my brake lines on for now.

 

Total install took 2 hrs going as fast as I could.

 

Some observations.

 

1. The ball joint angle is way better for lifted and leveled trucks, even with only 2" like my truck

2. They look thin, but they are actually quite heavy and possibly solid steel arms

3. The packing was horrible, just thrown in a card board box with no padding.

4. Bushings are OE type

5. Moog Ball joints

 

 

Not much of a difference in ride quality right now, but later tonight I am going to go hit the same speed bumps that I was making a "clunk" noise going over before.

 

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Where and what did you grind?

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The tiniest little bit on the front mount frame. Once I had it aligned to correct the toe in this may have been fixed, but it was rubbing a bit when I was installing them so I figured I might as well grind them down a bit while I had it apart.

 

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