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Old Feb 26, 2011 | 01:29 PM
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Recently replaced upper and lower ball joints on both passenger and driver side as well as idler arms and front and rear shocks.
Truck has been driving nice and tight until this morning, when I heard loud thumps coming from the front end. this happens when I take a turns especially at low speeds. There's one thing I did notice last weekend when I was changing the rear shocks though; I had the truck on level ground in the garage and it looked to me that the truck was sitting at an angle like sagged to the right. I decided to measure the left and right sides, finding that the right side from frame to ground was about 2 inches shorter than the height of the left. I'm beginning to wonder if this causing problems to the front end parts, and maybe why parts are wearing out much quicker than they should? idk..I also have recent new tires and alignment but that shouldn't matter. The thing that is concerning me is that the truck only has about 62000 miles on it and this is the second time replacing ball joints and I do mostly all highway miles. Does anyone have any ideas to whats going on or why the truck isn't level? Does it have something to do with the torsion bars maybe? Any help would be greatly appreciated! thanks
 
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