dana 35 ball joints

[blh0007]

will bad alignment wear out ball joints. and what symptoms should i look for for bad ball joints

 

[wizkid00104]

Jack the truck up so the weight is off both wheels. If you can wiggle the tire 1/32" with the lug nuts torqued properly, you have at least one bad ball joint.

I would think that bad alignment could wear ball joints prematurely, but I am not entirely sure. It seems logical, but not necessarily true.

 

[lone-wolf]

I have bad alignment and a bad ball joint, among other things. Don't know if one lead to the other or if a 3rd thing caused both. For a ball joint, from what my friend showed me, if you can move it easily around it's bad.

 

[canyoncritter]

to check your ball joints,

jack up the truck, under the beam, till the tire is 4-5 inches off the ground.

then take fence post/jack handle etc and put it under the tire like this

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then have someone lift up on the fence post, and watch for play in your balloints.