Bonehead mistake

I do know these are upside down and on the wrong side but in theory that shouldn’t Make a difference ? They’re may have been a good reason as to why , any ideas I haven’t found any grease zercs either ? And these uniballs are shot and it sounds like they come in different sizes . Helppp

 

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Dunno what kind of arms you've got there...if I had to guess they look like really old Camburgs?

I would hit up Camburg with your photos and see if they can recommend the uniballs you need....also you might want to flip those arms over and put them on the correct sides If they are upside down that is...they look like they might be but I didn't know they could actually be installed that way

 

In the current configuration the geometry is off. Caster, camber etc. additionally that uniball is already hitting the misalignment hardware which is limiting you downtravel as well as setting you up for a failure of either the spindle or the hardware joining the spindle and uniball.

 

Uniball is easy to spec yourself you just need the inner bore dimensions and everything follows. I would replace all hardware there as its seem some high stress. Uniball, misalignment spacers and nit and bolt

 

I can only think of 1 reason they would be installed wrong.

 

drinking and modding?

 

that's 2 more

 

So this tacoma is new to me lol no amount of drinking would lead me to put them upside down as far as camber i got it aligned with shot ball joints and it was good enough for me I’ll have to snag a pic of where it set . The castor wasn’t perfect either . Would you imagine I’d have a little more clearance from the misalignment spacers with the arms the correct way?

 

most aftermarket UCA build in a bit more caster to account for a lifted vehicle, stability and so forth. I would imagine that if installed backwards this effect would be compounded in the opposite direction which you would have to crank the cams bolts to recover stock caster. " you're playing yourself" the kids would say these days. camber should be less of an issue but everything works together. a quality alignment guy would raise a flag so I'm curious what your caster number was at, do you have the printout? clarify what you mean by clearance?

 

Depending on his wheels backspacing he might have had issues with the tire hitting the UCA.

 

Possible for sure but I wonder as in the end the uniball is in the same position in relation to the spindle. actually the more I look at this thing the more it looks orientated the correct direction. Meaning the arm is not symmetrical and looking at the part of the arm towards the front looks correct. I feel like it would be kicked forward more. May be just the angle of the photo and such. I wonder if these are a home-brew arm.

 

I snagged a few more pictures for the topic I ordered a pair of 1 inch uniballs from ruff stuff . I cannot imagine these being a one off arm either . I contacted Camburgs R&D dept they did not claim these as there own . The man said they’ve always used black bushings . I’m still looking for the alignment sheet hang in there

 

I was just looking at a For Sale thread on here for a Total Chaos long travel kit, and the UCAs reminded me of what yours look like...except not upside down lol. Red bushings too



Those are Total Chaos UCAs in the pic from this thread...maybe try giving them a call and see if they can help out?

 

Yeah I’ll have to give them a shot , every total chaos arm I’ve looked at had grease zercs and I can’t seem to find them anywhere . So as far as being extremely limited on down travel , next logical step would be lift spindles ?

 

The angle of the uniball housing is wrong. When you put the arm on the correct side, the uniball should be more or less aligned at ride height.

Uniballs for Tacos come in two common sizes, 1.0" bore and 1.25" bore.

 

I just got my 1 inch bore bearings in the mail today , will order oem lower ball joints too , cv boots.