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    Sooo 95% sure that the Moog and and of the Offset ball joints are the exact same as the SPC one. I know because I ordered the Moog from Amazon and then ordered the SPC one from O'Reilly and they were exactly the same. Im guessing all the aftermarket brands are using the same SPC ones. By the way I only had a dana 30. Well might be going a different route completely. I advertised in my local Jeep Facebook looking for some used springs if someone was going to be upgrading this winter (On a tight budget and first kid is on the way in April) Someone messaged me saying he was going to be upgrading to 1 tons and was going to sell everything as a package deal. Wheels and tires, Axles springs and shocks and control arms for a very good price. Probably going to jump on this for a few reasons: 1. Axles are straight and no offset ball joint needed. Also front and rear axles are already trussed which saves a bunch of money since I don't have a welder or confident in welding it myself. 2. Gears are what I want. My jeep currently has 4.88's and from what I have read up im going to want to go 37's with 4.88s however with the twisted axle I don't think that's a smart idea. The new axle would come with 35's and 4.56's which sounds better for what I want 3. Springs and shocks are included as everything else is. Im calculating by the time I sell my axles and stuff I should only be out a couple hundred and have a lot stronger setup. I am a little frustrated that I wasted a ton of time messing around with everything however I have learned a lot and now a ton more confident in everything. Enough that I feel confident to swap axles lol.
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    Alright we are nearing the end of this! Got the Moog K100312 1.5 degree ball joint, Lined her up and installed it so only thing being effected was the Caster. Got everything buttoned up. Took the jeep in and lo and behold everything was good to go! ball joints were very similar, passengers side was a little higher but sounds like from stock its a little higher on the passenger. Latest dliemma I have the Metal Cloak geometry bracket installed so I could use stock control arms for now....If I am on the lowest hole my caster is around 6.0 and if I use the center hole my caster is around 4.3. Not going to worry to much about it as I am going to put slightly taller springs since the jeep has Reid Knuckles and a Flipped Drag link kit. Sounds like I should have 3.5 inches of lift and currently the jeep has a small 2.5 inch lift. Should I be Trussing and Gusseting the jeep since at one time the axle was obviously bent?
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    Sorry everyone for the delay, Should have been done almost a week ago. Parts came from RockAuto and was installing everything. Everything was going great until I got to the upper ball joint and realized all the ball joints I was installing were knurled and all of the adjustable ball joints were not knurled. Did some research and seemed like once you go knurled you can't go back so everything was on hold for a couple of days while I ordered a cheap normal ball joint for the right upper so that I could replace it with an offset once everything got checked out. Ball joint came and went to get an alignment. Nothing had changed. Both Cambers were about 1 degree... Caster on the drivers side was 4.1 and caster on the passengers side was 2.7. Reading online sounds like I want a little higher caster on passengers side to start so I'm right around 1.4ish that I wanna add. Probably will end up with the 1.5 offset and call it good! Gotta order and wait now.
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    Man ohh man! Love the response and the in depth. Hopefully with both of us documenting this so well it'll help someone else in the future that has an issue with a slightly bent axle that won't be abusing the vehicle and can make it work for a long time with a cheaper fix. Im sure the lower is the original I checked the upper ball joint number and noted that its the OEM ball joint. Going back and forth. (And still kind of deciding) I think my go to will be to put a solid ball joint in the lower. For a couple of reasons. 1. Since for most people you gotta remove the upper ball joint to install the lower due to clearance issues and stuff. It would eliminate having to go through removing both of them. 2. And maybe more importantly, The only offset I have noticed for the lower are all 1.75 degree.... The ball joint is a common one that is used in a variety of vehicles so its probably decently strong however I don't love that the only option is 1.75. When looking at upper ball joints there are a variety of different options from 0.5 degree 1.0 degree 1.5 degree and 2.0 degrees. Also a lot of the uppers look to be greaseable unlike Moog lower K7043. 3. Im thinking put a solid lower ball joint in. Put a cheapish upper ball joint in. Go get the vehicle aligned. Figure out ideally what number makes sense.... If the lower ball joint effects camber and the camber is increased I might not need to try and adjust both I can maybe focus only on the caster. If not I can factor in the amount needed for camber and caster and install both. Ive decided as long as Im getting good at this I might as well do the other side as well and double check that the ball joints are decent. Make sure everything is solid when I go to check the alignment again.
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    Alright tore Into the Jeep today. Kind of impressed myself with how torn apart I got my Jeep (hopefully it all goes back together good.) haha. Anyways found the lower ball joint was shot! Tons of movement could move it with my pinkie. Pressed the upper ball joint out (somehow broke it in the process) was going to press out the lower ball joint and noticed it didn’t look like it was fully installed. (Look at picture below) it wasn’t pressed in enough to allow a C clip. Noticed that the other side was the same. My questions now…. 1. Could a bad ball joint cause that much caster difference? 2. How does a ball joint not pressed in all the way effect caster? Or does it? 3. Even if it takes more work…. Should I be installing stock ball joints. Getting another alignment on the Jeep and then figuring out what I need offset wise ? 4. Recommendations on a good cheap ball joint (not sure if that exists but there’s a chance that the ball joint stays installed for less than 24 hours if I end up still needing an offset one.
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    Awesome! Any idea if I’m better off doing the top ball joint or the bottom ball joint? Found the same offset for either one. I think the axle is stocking… I know it has aftermarket shafts. It is an unlimited and has some extra weight. I’ll have to do some research how to check axle bearings.
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    Ended up putting a geometry bracket on the Jeep and stock control arms on the lower front that I had laying around. still having some issues with cross caster but I’m getting more comfortable with this! I did have one question. an I better off putting one off set ball joint and having it adjust that side 1.5 degrees or am I better off increasing the one side by like 0.75 and decreasing the other side by 0.75? from researching I feel as though the camber should still be alright as long as I rotate the tires often
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    Forgot to upload this. thanks for the response! Got some work today. I know for a fact I need to increase the caster. I just didn’t know if it’ll be ok if one side is like 6.5 and the other side is 5. maybe all that will be a non issue once I deal with some of the other stuff.
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    Recently saw a super awesome detailed response from you about caster and camber and figured I’d ask here for the right answer as I’ve gotten a lot of bad advice already. Intro post to share. Just bought a new to me 2012 Jeep Jk. Previously had a TJ for the past 5 years and have our first kid on the way so needed something with more doors. I bought the jeep with all the modifications on it.Jeep has a 3 inch lift. Rock Krawler lower arms maybe synergy uppersJeep has anti rocks way bar.Flipped steering with Reid knuckles dana 30-4.88 gears.Adams drive shaftsTen Factory axle shafts. A bunch of other stuff...Needing some help and some of the people over on Facebook just arn't helpful. Bought the jeep maybe 3 months ago and it has been issue after issue. I bought it from a small auto shop who said he bought it with a bad transmission, rebuilt the transmission and checked everything over. Stupid me believed everything and I bought it. Front end seemed loose so I took it to a shop to get checked out and confirmed that some of the front end components were shot and needed replacing. Also noticed at the same time that one of the rear springs was cracked... Ordered new springs and 1 ton steering and thought I should be good to go. Took it to get an alignment and shop said Axle is twisted based off my Caster. one side was 3.01 degrees other side was 1.65 degrees. Got a couple Questions.....Not sure what route to go. Started looking for options of what I could do besides getting a new axle and having to swap everything over and regear.1. Started taking stuff off the front end and notice both lower control arms have a TON of play in them... Any way that my Adjustable control arms are effecting the Caster differences. 2. Does it really matter if Caster is so far off with the left and right... based off of what I know so far I think that Caster won't effect tire ware.. what does cross caster effect.3.Come across Caster ball joints... Was wondering if anyone has experience with putting on an offset ball joint to get my Caster closer.Would love to keep the same Axle... Get it good to go, add a truss and gusset and run it.
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