UCAs or Gears?

I'm wanting to make a purchase tomorrow and I cant decide if I want new UCAs or 5.29 gears. My truck pulls the 35s pretty good, so I'm kinda leaning towards the UCAs. Give me some advice to help with the decision, thanks in advance.

 

It depends. What is your truck used for and how much lift do you have ATM?

 

More on road than off, I drive 20 miles a day round trip, and there is no where to wheel where I live without going to jail anymore. Not sure what you mean by ATM but I have in the ball park of 3" of lift with the stock control arms.

 

ATM = At the moment

It sounds like you are set on UCAs and honestly if you're okay with your current gearing, get the UCAs for to prevent tire wear and dangerous alignments. The gears would help your acceleration and offroad but that doesn't seem to be an issue for you. I vote UCAs.

 

Are you having any issues with alignement or tire wear?

Waht are your numbers?

Is the truck squirrely at highway speeds and need constant steering input?

Don't get something just to empty your wallet. It sould have a specific purpose.

 

Gears all the way

 

Not doing it to empty the wallet, its just the next 2 things on the list. Don't know numbers but I can guarantee you its really bad, the truck is super crazy at any speed over 30 mph .

 

And there's your answer...best to avoid losing control and killing millions of innocent schoolchildren before worrying about improving acceleration.

 

At the moment. That's what I'm leaning towards because even though I got the deal of the century on my tires and wheels, the last time I checked tires aren't cheap. And I'm starting to feel like it might be a safety issue with the not being able to get a descent alignment.

 

Millions? That would take some serious speed and one awesome field trip. Haha

I would also vote control arms. Plus, they are probably cheaper to buy and install.

 

Heres one for ya..get both! Buy the UCA's first to address your issues(beings there is an issue) then on the next go around get the gears! With 35's there's now way I'd stay on stock gears, having the correct or lower gearing is so nice.

 

Yeah I was planning on getting both, the gears would actually be cheaper being that I know how to install those. The UCAs aren't going to be a huge hassle either except I went to 4 shops that do alignments and they all said they can not align with 35s on a truck, so then I asked if they could do it with my old 31s on there and they said yes, until I asked if the offset of the wheels being different would matter, then they stomped on me again and said yeah that wouldn't do me any good either so check with other people. If I can't find a shop to do it, I guess I'm going to have to learn how to do it myself.

 

You know how to regear? Would you like to save me 300 bucks I'm about to spend?

 

Yeah I know how to regear, I would love to save you $300 but on a normal work schedule I work 12-16 hrs a day and 99% of the time 7 days a week.
Is that $300 just labor? I checked on letting someone else do mine yesterday due to me not having time and to just get the rear done was $594 for parts and $500 for labor. Oh and then he told me that the front would be $1400 parts and labor due to it being more difficult. I offended him when he told me the prices because I started laughing and said THAT IS FUCKING RIDICULOUS, he hung up on me. $2494 is fucking ridiculous and that was me pulling it and taking it to them, its looking like I might have to have another week long project that would usually take 3-4 hours.

 

Lol I appreciate that but no sir I didn't mean for you to do the work for me, I meant could you tell me how? Yes that was for labor. My local diff shop wants 225 for the ring and pinion and 33 for an install kit and 250 for labor. When I told them I wanted to provide my own gears they said the labor charge for that was 300. So it's cheaper for me to let them use their own gears if I let them do that work.

But I would rather do it myself which I usually do, but the only problem is I have heard even if you're an experienced wrench not to attempt a gear swap. And wow, 2500 front and rear is complete garbage.

Do you have a second car to use while your truck is down?

 

Its not really a job that can be explained, and this might sound kind of bad to some people but its a trial and error procedure for me and knowing what to feel for.

I do not have a spare vehicle anymore(wife went back to work), but my brother works for me and he only lives a couple of miles away and all it takes is buying him breakfast and he has no problem carting me around.

 

UCA's 'cause they will improve your street ride.

I'd personally do the gear reduction first...
But only if it's wheeled often.

But you said you were satisfied with yer current performance
so I say spend the money on what improves your ride comfort.

there's really only one way to bolt UCA's on...
so you won't have to do much guess work !? Lol

 

Yeah, I'm really unsure what brand to go with though, as I do not have the pleasure of having awesome mountains and deserts to play in. I have looked into the LRs but really like the uni ball designs.

 

Damn. I was afraid of that. It looks like my only option is to pay the shop to do the job.

 

Camburg or All Pro for less coin