Tire fell off all ball joints just poped rite out any idea why

A beautiful way to end the night

 

Looking good,

I agree on the spacer/ball joint issue. I have a 1.5 inch spacer for a total 3 inch lift. I have not swapped UCA yet. The ball joint is definitely not working like it should be. The range of motion of the ball joint is reduced significantly with our arms having to reach further down to connect to the knuckle.

Just a thought. My 1 for the week

 

Remove the spacer / get aftermarket UCA's unless you want it to happen again.

 

Spend some money on proper jack-stands if you're going to be wrenching in the driveway

 

Also anyone want to bet that the main UCA bolt, and both LCA bolts were tightened fully when at full droop? This is no bueno for bonded rubber bushings at those locations.

 

Hope not for the OP's sake. In post #39 there is a floor jack under the LCA so it looks like they may have been torqued at ride height.

 

Was torqued at ride height

 

@Tacojustin1989, as others have said, that lift is going to likely lead to the same issue again for you. Your ball joints are the limiting factor in your droop now. You should probably either replace them or get limit straps if you're going to wheel.

How many miles on that since installing the spacer lift?

 

Installed spacer at 30k now has 110k was just lack of maintnce on uca

 

I’m not advocating that anyone run a spacer lift, however mine has been on for around 100k miles with no issues. I’m not going to pretend they don’t cause strain on the suspension, but if you do routine maintenance or at least inspect your truck then it will alleviate a lot of headache down the road (pun intended).

 

technically the tire is still connected.. the spindle and the hub fell "off"

 

My UCA ball joints failed and looked the same (rusted, dry) and they were aftermarket SPCs, I got their new model which has a zerk fitting on the ball joint and hope the issue doesn't happen again

 

The spindle and hub where still on and the tire. was all the ball joints that fell off ‍♂️ Wat a perfect disaster could have been much worse

 

Incorrect. Tire is not connected to the car, since the spindle and hub fell off along with the tire. Therefore the tire fell off the car as well. Logic. Lol

 

do we know if the LBJ was just twisted or was it separated? lol

 

Lbj separated every ball joint separated

 

Stock UCA without a spacer lift will go for the 300+k miles. Again your spacer lift led to the failed ball joint as the the upper ball joint is now your limiting factor when the suspension goes close to full droop.

 

@JaCado didn’t you run a spacer lift at one point?

 

He doesn't now.

 

Nope, only a 1 inch block in the rear.
I have a spacer lift for sale, 3 and 2, but no. Never ran it, it was in the box of parts I purchased from another member.