The Ultimate Ball Joint Comparison!!!

[PlayfulBird]

Curious if anyone has experience with Mevotech TTX TXMS25574 and TXMS25575
Mainly because I was told to use Mevotech TTX for our lifted GC, and Rockauto is convenient.
Also saw the Dana Spicer ones there...
any experience with those?

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[Northridge4x4]

After watching this great video and doing some researching I was thinking I would need to replace mine. I now have just under 70000 on mine and just checked the ball joints. The stock ones are. solid tight. I do appreciate the video and will probably put the Teraflex set on when I do change them. No plan to do so until I need. My rig is a willy's and I upped my tires to 285-70-17. Also, I have 1" spacers on the wheels. Rides and works amazing. I do off road some. Usually dirt and mud trails, not really any rock crawling. Is it unusual to get this far before needing to change them???

Seems to be around 80K miles when we hear of them going out, BUT we've seen them go over 100K and have seen some really worn ones by 30K.

Lots of depends going on there. Probably one of the biggest is how much time the spend off road, especially with bigger than stock tires. The leverage on the joints and contaminations can really put a hurt on those nylon liners.

 

[Zachattack50]

Did the metal cloaks about 250 miles ago. Highly recommend them, solid units USA made. Did it more precautionary as I was finishing installing the artec truss kit. The M210 is good to go until I upgrade to RCV's.

 

[VA6489]

My vote is for Dynatrac joints. Installed them in my 17 JKUR and run them 130,000 miles before upgrading to Dana 60s. The second owner put another 45 ,000 on them before rebuilding. Yes there were services regularly ( read greased). Ran 37s then 40 inch rubber... A lot of road and off road rock crawling. Bought a rebuild kit and sold that with the axles.

Ran these in my F series trucks as well. "last ball joint you will buy" claim hold true.

 

[Bacardiac]

Does brand type ball joints matter when your also upgrading steering? I was looking at core 4x4 steering kit and they use apex, should I get apex ball joints? Or can I use teraflex ball joints?

 

[Rusty PW]

Does brand type ball joints matter when your also upgrading steering? I was looking at core 4x4 steering kit and they use apex, should I get apex ball joints? Or can I use teraflex ball joints?

You can use either one.

I have the Core steering linkage. I'm going to use Metalclock ball joints.

 

[Stan H]

You can use either one.

I have the Core steering linkage. I'm going to use Metalclock ball joints.

I just did the metal cloak ball joints and wow what a difference

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