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Originally Posted by PhilD
Two issues there. The bending of the CL, but more importantly why it bent. If the passenger side of the CL is sitting higher than the drivers side, then the TR may push it up into the frame, when turned all the way driver, the TR will bend the CL up. As the angle increases the TR will bind, any impact or sudden jolt will result in either a bent TR or blown ball joint.
Strapping the control arms may help prevent the angle from becoming bad enough to cause damage, of course you will lose some suspension droop travel, but an unloaded (no weight on it) wheel is not doing much anyway.
A solid center link helps eliminate the issue, I used one after my CL had flexed so many times it was just way to flexy, but at the cost of a slightly larger turning radius and excessive tire scrub.
The GM IFS front end just sucks in my view. I speak to a lot of people with 2500's that bend tie rods by driving down the street. They get exactly the same front end toe in/out oscillation just by standing on the gas (or more usually, the diesel).
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I agree. A solid axel upgrade might have helped some of those problems, but still.....The kind of wheeling you do, you need something really specialized.
I crawled under my H2 today
and the steering gear still looks really good! YAY! I also jacked it up on one side at a time, and the front end is still very solid!
I do have one fabtech TR on the passenger side with two little tiny holes in the boot on the inside that is squirting grease out of it, but other than that it's all good. I can't imagine where all the noise is coming from. My inner axel seal is leaking a little bit, but those are brand new, so I expect to get one Moab trip out of them before they blow all the way. Everything on the front of this hummer is new, so I don't know what's popping and clicking. I'll check the Rancho shocks next. (no oil coming out, but that doesn't mean there isn't trouble with one).
Phil, my bro-in-law pulls a 35ft triple axel 5th wheel all over Id, Mt, Wy with his duramax. (cattle, backhoes, and tractors, He builds roads for a living.) He loves it, and hasn't ever had any trouble with it. He has got to be the only person on earth.
Trent keeps threatening to pull me home from Moab with his Excursion.
Over my dead body!