On Thu, January 12, 2006 3:26 pm, Robert Schultz wrote:
>
> Josh Battles wrote:
>
>> It depends on how you drive it. I've gone through 3 sets of front links,
>> and
>> at about $30 a piece they're not cheap. I seem to break mine at the little
>> ball and socket joint.
>
> Ummm, it has the Hotchkis kit, isn't that an indicator :-)
Some people drop their trucks for looks only purposes. I drive mine like
it's stolen, I didn't want to assume you did the same.
>> If you're getting clunking you may want to check your bar bushings, I had a
>> bushing go bad on me and the bar was slamming around inside the brackets
>> causing a pretty rediculous noise.
>>
>
> I'll look there. I never looked too closely at the front because I was
> sure the cluck was in the rear, but you know how that goes.
>
> The links are $75.80 CDN a piece. The dealer credited most of that back.
Yikes, the price must have gone up! I haven't purchased links in a couple of
years, I haven't had as much time to go to the track / autocross.
> I did think that Hotchkis should have included:
>
> 1. New bolts for the rear springs
> 2. The sway bar links for the front
> 3. New shackles for the rear.
>
> It would have made the whole installation go much smoother.
>
> I mean where are you going to find new spring bolts at 5PM on a Sunday?
Why new shackles and which spring bolts? I was able to reuse all but the
u-bolts that hold the axle tube to the spring packs, they were about ½ inch
short.
The stock links are actually pretty stout pieces, mine only broke when I
decided to go with metal plates instead of bushings. I figured that'd help
keep me a little more level in the corners, did a great job until the links
failed.
-- - Josh www.omg-stfu.com
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