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Broken SD 60 balljoints
- Thread starter Doubleud
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rattlewagon
shitboxin
I truly don’t know. I’m just looking at junk the tow truck dragged in. Both of those trucks are for a different area/group than I’m in.
TrailTamer
🤣🖕🏻
Zoomed in I can see both ball joints are fully intact, nothing sheared that I can see.
Both ball joint got so worn and popped out during a bounce if I have to guess
Upon further inspection you are correct. I believe it to be impossible to break the U-joint or the shaft on these trucks with stockish size tires on them. Both of them have broken joints/shaft ears. I don’t know which came first oddly parted ball joint’s and took out the shaft.
Or. More likely. Ran worn out u-joints to long the shafts came apart and like anything the shaft ears trying to run over each other pushes the knuckle off. We NEVER unlock our hubs. I want to be able to turn the 4wd knob when I hit dirt without getting out of the truck to lock or unlock hubs. The factory joints are pretty guaranteed to be dry and destroyed by 100K miles doing this. I got mine replaced at 103K and the drivers side was squalling, caps were bone dry and rollers had turned to powder. If I had kept pushing the joint to failure I could see it knocking the knuckle off because on the 11 up both BJ’s are in the same direction, load bearing.
You guys send those trucks to auction or what does the company do when done?
They’re up for auction now. No link , employees only. Over priced for trashed junk trucks. I’d go buy a 400K mile truck from Texas before I’d buy one of these with 150k.
Damn, a single cab 6.2 e locker truck that was beat and cheap seems cool to throw 40s on and wheel. Like a modern k30 single cab.
The only single cabs we get are F550, all the SRW trucks are extended cabs.