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Mr. Demeanor 05-03-2004 07:45 PM

One other thing. If your past 50K miles there is a good chance your non-greasable ball joints are shot. That can also cause intermitant handling issues. Replace them with aftermarket greasable ones. I was lucky that a friend who owns an F550 advised me of this right off. We drilled and threaded in self tapping zerk fitting into the stock ball joints. At 100K + they are stilll good.

Velocity Tom 05-03-2004 07:49 PM

Great thanks for the info.

Jamie B. 05-03-2004 08:48 PM


Originally posted by Mr. Demeanor
One other thing. If your past 50K miles there is a good chance your non-greasable ball joints are shot. That can also cause intermitant handling issues. Replace them with aftermarket greasable ones. I was lucky that a friend who owns an F550 advised me of this right off. We drilled and threaded in self tapping zerk fitting into the stock ball joints.
This is what I saw / read ! :)

excursion 05-03-2004 09:08 PM

I had a similar problem with my excursion, did some digging at the Ford service and Ford had a problem with the pads not releasing off the rotors so there is a new spring to do so. Also there is a new brake pad that ford came out with for the bigger trucks, supposed to last longer and better stopping power.

zahndok 05-03-2004 09:27 PM

Mr. Demeanor


Did you use oem hoses as replacements or did you find a better aftermarket source?

Dave

WetKitty42 05-03-2004 09:38 PM

Mine did a little

Mr. Demeanor 05-03-2004 10:09 PM

I used aftermarket from NAPA


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