UCA Discussion - Long Term Ownership (Maintenence, Cost to own, JBA, TC, Icon...)

I have SPC UCAs and they're great. Plus I have my camber dialed in exactly where I want it to be too. They're more for alignment than droop, but you still get an extra inch or so of droop compared to stock.

 

I am in Texas where it's pretty dry and no salt is used on the road. Almost 100K on the TC uca's. Put in new uniballs probably 25k miles ago because I thought they were popping. Turns out it wasn't them lol. As far as the bushings, make sure to only do one pump of grease @ each zero when you lube them. Total chaos FTW

Great looking truck btw OP!

 

Yeah, my caster's set at 3.6 with the SPCs.

 

Very good info..

 

Old thread but comes in handy, been considering what to get. Leaning towards TC UCA

 

Yes. It's time for me to replace my TC UCA bushings and uniball. I got 65K out of mine. Kind of in the same situation as Op.

 

This thread pops first for Total Chaos Uniballs. I live in the Canadian Rockies, so lots of salt, winter for about 7 months. Mine lasted about 50,000k, about 30,000 miles. Lubed regularly, washed same. OEMs all lasted me 80,000 plus, same sort of driving. To me 50Km/30k miles seems low. I really wonder if some sort of protective tent or sleeve would help,
the design definitely fills up with salt/grit. Pondering SPCs or others. Total Chaos about $250+ up here to DIY Uniballs and bushings each time, and I don’t expect the replacement intervals to get better...

 

Another thread revival.

This is good to know. I'm planning on ordering the BDS UCA after talking with them at a local truck show.

The BDS website is severely lacking in user friendliness, searchability, and information. Not much information there other than price and part number. I found on some other websites that they are recommended for lifts between 2-3" and also with the BDS 6" lift kit, but not the 4". That said, I can't find anything about built in caster, but I assume it has it based on the 2 in 2-3". If no caster was built in, it would be 0-3". Right?

 

Just to quote myself here, I found the install instructions, which are well done with the exception of a couple misspelled words. Step 11 states:

"11. Arms give increased caster, a front end alignment is now required. Arms are not recommended for 0” of lift applications."

The more I look into these, the more I'm sold on them.