I am going to do a 4" front lift on my truck. I plan to do new upper control arms, and tie rod ends when I do the lift. My current leveling kit ate through the upper ball joints, and the tie rod ends are cheap. May do front rotors and am looking at new front strut options as well.

Anything else I should replace or check when I do the lift?

 

 

Didn't realize I could press the ball joints out. I will do them also. They are too cheap not to do while I have it apart.

Sway bar end links and bushings I did when I installed the leveling kit. They should still be good, but I'll check them as well.

 

 

Looking through my service records. the dealership replaced the lower ball joints at 85K miles right before I bought the truck. I now have 143K. How fast do they wear out?

 

 

I did my level 50K miles ago, and went bigger with the tires 40K ago. May as well do it then. Especially with how inexpensive they are, and the fact that it'll already be apart.

The 4" lift will fix those angles and hopefully make it so I won't need to do it again for a very long time.

Thanks for the input.

 

 

Finally got around to ordering things. Had other things come up that delayed me. Ordered a 4" lift from Rough Country. I also ordered, Bilstein front struts (my struts are shot), upper control arms, lower ball joints, tie rod ends, sway bar end links, sway bar bushings. New nuts for the front brakes, and rear ceramic brake pads. Pretty much a front end rebuild, other than the lower control arms. But I had my mechanic friend check out my lowers. He said the bushings, and the control arms were good. Lower ball joints weren't bad either. But since they are so cheap, I can't not replace them.

It'll be a week or so before everything gets here. Then a full weekend of tearing the truck apart and installing everything. I'll post some pics when she's done.