D44 ball joints

zuk88 · Jul 3, 2011

I'm running a late 70's 44 under my sammy with 33's and after 3 years I'm getting some play out of them.This seems a little soon if you ask me,they are Dana Spicer ball joints from Randy's R&P.Are these supposed to be the best ones?

zukkev · Jul 3, 2011

Spicers have notoriously been the longest lasting, but have heard their quality may have suffered some as of recent yrs...
Moog's supposed to be right up there...

Boosted · Jul 3, 2011

Not sure how different they are from the ball joints on a JK D44, but we have issues with them going bad quickly. Poly Performance offers some that are spendy but supposedly last a lot longer.

JOOP · Jul 3, 2011

I've been running Moog's in mine with 39.5" and they are holding up.

zuk88 · Jul 3, 2011

I saw the ones from Poly performance and they said they were the super duty Dana Spicer ball joints.I'm wondering if they are different than the ones I got from Randy's.

zuk88 · Jul 3, 2011

http://www.polyperformance.com/shop/Crane-Dana-44-Spicer-Heavy-Duty-Ball-Joint-Kit-p-20000.html This is what I was looking at.

zuk88 · Jul 3, 2011

http://shop.cranehiclearance.com/product.sc?productId=16&categoryId=6 looked at cranes sight too and they look like the ones I got.Having a light wait vehicle I thought they would last longer.

zuk88 · Jul 3, 2011

Boosted said:
Not sure how different they are from the ball joints on a JK D44, but we have issues with them going bad quickly. Poly Performance offers some that are spendy but supposedly last a lot longer.

The ones you speak of are for the late model 44's,it would be nice if they had those for the early models.

maxx · Jul 3, 2011

If anybody mentions ballistic fabrication in this thread (boardboy :flipoff: ) I will hunt you down and punch you in the throat.

Moogs held up well for me. But if you want to drop the coin this looks like a great setup

http://bonefishfab.com/

99redtj · Jul 4, 2011

if your ball joints have no grease fittings that you got from randy's,then they should be the same ones thate crane is selling part #706116x.

steve call randy's and get the part number of there spicer ball joints and compare it to the crane #

you know how my spicers have been holding up.

CHOP SHOP · Jul 4, 2011

3 years is short term on a wheeler with knobbies?

Sounds like they lasted pretty good.

Any street truck on 36s will eat a set of BJ and TRE about every two years with just street driving.

I dont think your going to get any better BJs than that.

Mallcrawler83 · Jul 4, 2011

If you use your truck alot, 3-4 years don't sound extremely short. A buddy had a jeep that ate em once a year. Always sumthin wrong with the front end.:looser:

skinny_pedal · Jul 4, 2011

CHOP SHOP said:
3 years is short term on a wheeler with knobbies?

Sounds like they lasted pretty good.

Any street truck on 36s will eat a set of BJ and TRE about every two years with just street driving.

I dont think your going to get any better BJs than that.

I think your numbers are a little off.

TreeClimber · Jul 5, 2011

maxx said:
If anybody mentions ballistic fabrication in this thread (boardboy :flipoff: ) I will hunt you down and punch you in the throat.

Moogs held up well for me. But if you want to drop the coin this looks like a great setup

http://bonefishfab.com/

ballistic fabrication

(Just be prepared to wait)

Mallcrawler83 · Jul 5, 2011

oh, check out ballistic fab:fawkdancesmiley:

zuk88 · Jul 7, 2011

I didn't see any ball joints on their web sight so I'll have to call them.Those bone fish joints,has any one ran these?

zuk88 · Jul 18, 2011

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=944903 these sound promising.

crash2 · Jul 18, 2011

zuk88 said:
I'm running a late 70's 44 under my sammy with 33's and after 3 years I'm getting some play out of them.This seems a little soon if you ask me,they are Dana Spicer ball joints from Randy's R&P.Are these supposed to be the best ones?

I would only get 2 years out of my spicers when I had a 44.. 3 runs on moogs :haha:

zuk88 · Jul 19, 2011

I'm hoping they will have these soon because I can think of a lot more things to do besides changing ball joints

uke:

Little Red Zuk · Jul 19, 2011

99redtj said:
if your ball joints have no grease fittings that you got from randy's,then they should be the same ones thate crane is selling part #706116x.

steve call randy's and get the part number of there spicer ball joints and compare it to the crane #

you know how my spicers have been holding up.

The ones from Randy's are Dana 706116X