Shit day

So I was driving home from work today and this happened. Crossed a set of train tracks, and the recently replaced lower ball joint snapped clean off, ripping the upper ball joint apart and having the truck use the tire as a ski until

 

Until I was able to stop and move to the side of the road.

 

Looks fine to me....that a Dodge Ram right?

 

What brand of ball joints where they replaced with?

 

Damn that sucks

 

damn.... I feel your pain.

 

Damn dude. Sorry about that, sucks

 

not the ideal way to begin the weekend.

 

Replacing lower ball joints at 100K seems to be the rule of thumb and the "word on the playground" here on TacomaWorld. Mine were a little sloppy, so I swapped them with OEM... Glad I did. Sorry about your truck!

 

Did you torque them properly when you installed them? Also, as someone else asked, what brand were they?

Which part(s) broke? The 4 retaining bolts, or the main conical shaped stud?

 

Sorry to hear about that man. Sucky day for sure. Hope you get'r back up and running quickly and without too huge of a bill!

 

I have replaced mine 3 times now. 160,000 and 240,000. What brand did you go with? Loctite and torque the bolts?

 

Thats so shitty it was somewhat of a newer joint too, that hurts! Im curious as well as to what brand it was? Surly it wasnt a toyota joint to prematurely snap like that im guessing...on such a massively critical component like that it annoys the shit outta me that the aftermarket produces such crap for replacements! It also really annoys me that the engineers at toyota designed that joint to be like that, where the ball "hangs" from the cup! Plain stupid in my opinion! Of course thats gunna be a super weak point, then in such a critical area, i dont get it... Of course they wised up later on to design them where they sit in the cup instead of hang, well duh!!! Wouldn't that be like common sense??

 

Didn't know they were doing the hover conversions on Tacomas now!

Hope the damage isn't too bad, OP. Good luck.

 

Too much ram, not enough dodge. But honestly, this is a pain in the behind. I feel for ya OP.

 

Unsure of the ball joint brand. The previous owner had them replaced for vehicle safety before I bought it. Definitely not OEM though. No warning rattling, nothing, just snap and the result above.

 

Oh I'd be beyond pissed!! And unfortunately there's nothing that you can do with the PO I'm sure. That seriously Sucks! GL with the repair, hope it didn't tare to much other crap up.

 

Hopefully the insurance co will total it and give you lots of money to do a solid axle swap!

or some other upgrade. Sorry OP for the shit day, hope you can find the light in it

 

Damn dude that does suck.

Any pics of the damage once you got the wheel/tire off?