Whoo hoo! Thanks man.

Yeah, I just had ball joints done, and the rest of the front end is good... minus the steering gear of course.

Thanks dude!
Andy

 

Got the rotors replaced. Yepper, 1-11/16" was perfect. Orderd a Proto one from Grainger. Worked like a champ. Was $16 for the impact version after my Farm Bureau discount.

Man, that's one heck of a job just to replace rotors. Took me the better part of a day. Also found that I had a caliper siezed up. Ended up replacing both calipers (long story). New calipers, new pads, and new rotors. SMOOOOOOTH.

Thanks again for the help.
Andy

 

Congrats, your done and not even cussin about it. Your a better man then me. In my world that jobs good for a couple of thrown tools and a whole mouth full of special words. Of course the couple of them I've done were both factory stuff that had a few years to weld itself in place. I'm hoping the re-do's will go easier.

 

Ever get any finished pics of the whole truck?

 

Finished, don't know that word, explain yourself. The front end is finished, for now. Now I'm gettin ready to pull the rear springs out again and make some improvements there. I finally found some rolls of the Teflon materiel to put between the springs so they move on each other better and to stop the squeaking and a few other ideas that are comin. Been prototypin and testin some new ideas through the hay season and am waitin to put together a cleaned up version of it all before I post it up.

Front end and steering are fantastic though. Wish I would have made these changes years ago and saved all the nasty ride and sore shoulder from steering.

 

Did you by chance ever replace the control arm bushings with the poly replacements did you? I'm getting ready to do it, just wondering if they'll actually come out without me having to burn them out.

 

Got a rude awakening on the Poly replacements for our Diesel Trucks. They don't fit. All the Poly Bushings that are advertised for our trucks are actually designed for the 2500 gassers that have the lighter weight suspension.

I did have to change the bolts in the control arms, forget the proper name for em right now. Thew were froze solid in there and would come out. Had to grind off the heads and beat em out with a driver and even at that I beat em so hard I mushroomed out the bolts and had to grind that off to. Wasn't no fun.

 

The Energy Suspension ones don't fit? If thats the case I'm gonna be PISSED!!! I dropped over $100 for bushings, and if they don't fit I'm gonna have to spend another $100 on MOOG replacements (I won't buy Napa crap).

 

I didn't try the bushings your referring to in particular but none of the Rear leaf spring parts, Front coil shock suppressors or front and rear sway bar mounts fit. I found parts listed for other applications to fit some of this but still wasn't able to replace most of it at all.

 

I have the right size Energy Suspension sway bar bushings for the front, the rear IDK about, haven't had to mess with it yet. I'm just replacing the control arm bushings right now, should work, I can't imagine Dodge used different control arms for the Cummins trucks.