well last night on my way home i touched the brakes and my truck almost jerked me off the right side of the road. this wasnt any normal hit the brakes and it pulls to the right. im talkin i had to turn hard left to get on the brakes at all. so today i pull the front tires off to see if i had a caliper sticking or a pinched brake line. bled both sides and checked pads and calipers. everything worked great and passed inspection by looking at it. brakes were bled great and everything. took it up the road again and at full lift it didnt do it at all. but as soon as you drop it to a low ride height it jerked extremely bad. even worse when making a sharp turn in to a parking lot or something. popped the hood and started looking at alternative possibilities when i found this....
if you have ever taken your upper control arms off at any point in time. i beg you to please take a few minutes to check to make sure your bolts are tight because apparently i didnt get them tight enough or have worked them lose by hoppin the front end. this could have been tragic to me or the truck and i dont want to see it happen to anyone else.
Most manuals state that about every 10k miles or so,all the body bolts and other suspension items be checked and tightened.I have never paid much attention to it but u bet I will now.Glad u and the Dawggy are ok.bj
Man glad to hear you are ok. Good thing you cought that. At first I was thinking maybe a pinched brake line...but gosh that is worse. I had u bolts that were not tightened once on a truck I bought. But that is in the rear not anywhere near as scary as this.
Hmm, interesting that it would only cause a diff. when braking?
I'm sure it would intensify as you were to lower or raise ride height from original ride height.
Actually, I will look this up in my manual:
LCA TORQUE: 101-127 LBS.
UCA TORQUE: 94-127 LBS.
Torquing your bolts properly will prevent this sort of thing from happening... If I were you I would choose the latter of 127 lbs. torque to torque the bolts.
Wow, that definately looks like a recipe for a scarry ride! Good to hear you made it back in one piece and definately a good heads up for the rest of us.
Wow man you are lucky. This happened to me at the beginning of summer and I almost killed myself. Stock control arm weld snapped. Thus I am redoing my truck with nothing stock. Being that I had just started welding this year I thought one of my welds would be going b4 any of the stock stuff. Sure enough mine were still standing while the stock ones snapped clean off...