JBA Offroad Upper Control Arms And Suspension MEGA Thread BS thread

What UCAs need their BJs replaced every few k?

 

Glad to see you're keeping a good attitude about that. Technology sometimes can be a pain.

 

It was some higher end ones...not just one brand multiple. Total chaos comes to mind, ICON as well...I believe SPC too. Supposedly they need it pretty often if you off road because the joint is open and exposed so dirt and what not gets in there.

 

this isnt true. you need to keep uniballs clean yes, and coated, but you dont have to change them out every few k

 

So...I know I need to lube these up every 5K (tire rotation), but they wont need replacing that often? Whats the avg life of these?

 

Mall Crawler like me or do you wheel?

 

Intermediate wheeler. I go to the beach a lot and end up covered in sand. Sometimes Ill end up covered in mud. No rock crawling or anything like that for me tho

 

this

 

Keep them greased. Id start monitoring for wear every 5k, when you grease them.

 

So...5K miles? 20k? 40k?

 

You should be fine for a few years. I just make it a habit. If im going to change a air filter, I inspect it for water marks. If I grease ball joints, I inspect them. You are already there right?

 

The others have been spoken for but SPC I can speak for from experience. Grease every know and then. #notamallcrawler you can tell because I used a hashtag, don't look at my IG though because I don't have #followers to prove it

 

I dont even have a fucking IG, to busy working to post pictures of my food.

 

Instagram doesn’t even have pictures of food anymore, only instalanders in turd gens and influencers selling make up and protein shakes.

 

Protein shakes are not food? news to me

 

Some of those influencers, read as "professional models" lawl, are nice or at least have good photoshop skills.

 

You must have some time...I mean you are here...

 

Can someone do me a favor and post a picture showing the clearance between the ball joint and the coil spring with 3" of lift and caster set at around 3ﾟ with the JBA arms? Also if you could give a picture of what the lower alignment cams look like at 3°. I'm trying to judge how much clearance I will have versus my SPC arms if I switch to these. As you can see in this picture my arms are currently too close to my coil springs in my opinion. This pic is at right height, not droop and I have 3" Dobinsons coils.

 

Are JBAs considered "100% sealed?" I heard that term used for the SPCs Im now wondering if JBAs are too.

 

No, they are not. At full droop, a boot slides down exposing part of a ball