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Good moenin brother Neek!!!

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Hey Nik how are you liking your SPC LR UCA's?

 

I love em! I’ve had zero issues with them and being lifted 7” I was able to get my alignment squared up perfectly. The moog greasable balljoints on them is a nice touch. I also have the SPC tubular style pictured here

They just released the new version of the arms which are flat as seen here

 

I've noticed the last couple months mine started creeking. They have only been in for almost a year now. It only happens really in the morning. Thinking it's my driveway being on a hill. Also happens at full turn turn once in a blue moon too.

 

Did you apply all the grease they came with and properly tighten the long thru bolt?

 

@MarX so far I haven’t had any issues with them, but SPC has a great warranty

 

Yep I just think it's my steep hill of a driveway. As it only does it occasionally in the mornings. It is coming due for more grease again.

 

That's pretty cool. Hadnt seem em yet.

Wonder why they did away with the tubular style?

 

It may have been redesigned for strength purposes, I like the look of the tubular style tho

 

Same here

 

This weekends project at a buddy’s house. Took Friday half day and all day today to finish it. And 4 of us to do it.

 

That's sweet!

 

Lol for $1400 it better be

We laid cement pads and bolted it all down. Plus it’s just shy of 600lbs total so it ain’t going anywhere. It turned out really nice, rusty and his wife are happy. And I helped my buddy Justin do some cleanup and added a metal frame gazebo with fabric roof in his backyard too

 

@MarX well speaking of SPC arms, I’m now having to warranty out or buy new balljoints for them. Only because the passenger side boot has become so swollen because I over greased it way back. The lock ring at the top of the boot fell in and stretched out and will not go back on the swollen boot. The drivers side is starting to get swollen so I’m gonna swap em both out. Then later down the road I’m going to total chaos uniball UCAs

@ChadsPride I also found out that the aftermarket MOOG greaseable sway bar links are incompatible with the maxtracs spindles. Their placement of the grease zerks on pass side jam into the spindle. So I had to order them from Toyota due to the oem being sealed with no zerks.
MY cost on OEM is $111 each side
MY cost on moog was $45 per side
That’s a helluva price jump lol

 

Well I was able to locate a set of boots with redesigned rings. I’ll see if SPC will warranty it or if O’Reillys has any in town otherwise I’ll order em from headstrong Offroad. You can see here that the original ring wraps around like a spiral twice and once you’ve stretched it, it won’t toghten up again

The redesigned ring allows you to squeeze it into place on the new boot thank god

 

That stinks sorry man. Hope mine are ok, you'd think the extra grease would leak out. It says to add grease with oil change schedule. Like 10 pumps if I remember. Very disappointing. Any thoughts on sway bar delete?

 

I filled them till the giant boots pooched out, that was my bad for over filling them lol. And I would never delete the sway bar with daily driving in traffic especially at 7” lift. Would be highly unsafe. If it were a dedicated Offroad vehicle, sway bar would be gone.

Also the extra grease did leak out lol, I had a mess to clean up this evening at workit was all down the back of the spindle

 

Hmm.. I think once mine go I'll look to a different product down the road. Being greaseable you'd think it would help them last longer.

 

Bummer, I don't like cleaning up grease!

 

Well I ordered the new boots and redesigned retainer rings from O’Reillys this morning, should see em by the end of the week. The arms and balljoints themselves are still in top notch condition, it was just a fuck up on my part which led to the boot issue