UCA trouble / questions

Hey TW,

Recently my truck has been out of commission due to a CV failure. Long story short, I relpaced both CV's and right after that the UCA on the passenger side was touching the tire. (For reference I just have 3" coil spacers) So I noticed I had a bad UBJ, I got some low-ish mileage OEM UCA's and have only changed the passenger side so far.

I noticed right after changing the passenger side (before driving) that I could fit a finger tip between the UCA and the tire. I took it slowly for about a 1.5 mile loop. Once I got back I noticed that the UCA was almost touching the tire. The UBJ is in good shape. I noticed when i jack the front end up and then set it back down that I can fit a fingertip between the two again. However, to test it I backed up about 10 yards and then pulled back into the spot and I had the same issue again. I'm in need of new LBJ's but I'm wondering if that could be a contributing factor? Any ideas?

 

Need info on tire size too. But OEM UCAs don’t really work with 2” of lift on a second gen. Look up SPC or JBA they seem to be popular.

 

285/70/17, I get that but I've gone around 90K on the same setup with stock wheels without an issue. It's always been close to the tire, but not this close. The driver's side is fine and I haven't changed that UCA yet

 

This is right when I let it off the jack

 

This is after backing up

 

I've been running 1/4" spacers for quite a long time. I understand that's not really much of a spacer, but my main question is could a bad lower ball joint lead to this? Because i can't think of what would be bent