This past week I’ve noticed my upper ball joint boots are torn pretty badly.I’d much rather switch to an aftermarket upper control arm but everything I’m finding says it won’t work with factory wheels or 12.50 wide tires. The truck is a 19 4x4 with the eibach stage 1 kit with 35/1250/20 tires on oem wheels. I know using a wheel spacer is an option but I’d rather not go that route. Does anyone know if anything is available that would work or do I just need to put ball joints in it and forget about it

 

What arms do you have in there now and why wouldn't replacing them with the same thing work?

Personally, I like to install HD greaseable ball joints when they go out. Unless you do a lot of hard off-road, you won't be replacing them again before you sell the truck.

 

SPC forged UCA on my 2017 XL about to get it's winter boot on.


Factory steel 17 inch wheels and winter tires.
I went with SPC for the adjustments offered, strength of arms and ball-joints, additional reliability, extra clearance was a bonus. My stock UCA's cleared the Icon's well enough. No trouble with the stock OEM wheel clearance. Offset and backsace on your wide wheels will make a differance but I'm not sure how much if any. 20 inch diameter adds clearance and I do not think you went with more backspace on the 3 inch wider wheel. The OEM has a back space of 5 1/2 inches. KM