Icon UCA's or any Uniball style UCAs stiffness?

so after installing my Icon lift with Icon's UCAs, i find that the steering is quite stiff now. steering returns to center after making a turn ok but it gets to about the last 10 degrees from being center and ill have to guide it back to center. its not a huge deal but im just wondering if anyone else with these style UCAs have the same thing going on. is it a characteristic of these joints or can i grease something up to make it less stiff?

it had gotten softer since the install and i thought ok, just needed to wear in a bit but turns out, i had 1 of the bolts on the joint actually come loose. so after tightening everything back up, its back to being stiff like when i first installed it. Any ideas or advice??

 

anyone?

 

^^^^ this. More caster = heavier steering feel, less = lighter feel

 

i have my caster set at 2.6 on both sides. it was recommended i get as close to 2.5 as possible correct?
also, with more miles i put on the truck it got easier and easier to turn but that was b/c of the bolts backing out on the uni-balls. if it was caster, the bolts coming loose wouldnt have mattered, still would have been hard to turn no?

 

thats what i thought myself and it did get easier after a few weeks....but than i found those bolts coming loose. after retightening, its back to how it was when i first installed them...lol.

 

The ball of the UCA is very tight and need to wear a bit. It,s not very long 1 or 2 weeks.

 

thats what im gonna have to do i guess. ill have to give it a few more weeks and see how it goes.