Update on my truck

[01silvapathy]

So this happened cause I swerved to miss a dog and hit a curb at 65...ball joint snapped along with the strut






After some repairs heres how she sits now on 35's without bumpers haha






Next up are mud grapplers....gotta love getting wholesale price on tires!

[Qxxx4]

Wow!! that looks amazing! What wheels are those? How much did those tires cost? How much would that lift setup cost including labour? NICE JOB!

[01silvapathy]

The wheels are just the stock double tri stars that came with the truck, I just painted them metallic grey awhile ago. Most of the center caps for the wheels have either been lost or broken into pieces while wheeling. As far as the tires go I found the 4 35x12.5x16 BFG AT's on craigslist used with 80 percent tread and got them all for 300 bucks. I work at discount tire so I can just mount and balance my own stuff whenever as long as im off the clock. And the new tires which I should be getting within the next month im getting at wholesale price which knocks off around 400 bucks off just the tires.

In terms of lift I really cant say how much I have into it, im sure if I actually took the time to calculate it id be shocked. But just price out the cost of the 2in lift and the 4in sfd from krypton fab and thats around what it will cost you.

[Pathfinder3.5]

I feel your pain with the broken balljoint...scary stuff. Check my thread that I posted friday for pics! Truck looks great though!

[yngw13]

so guys...how wil you know if the balljoint is close to breaking??? Would it be just be better to get it replaced when I get my wheel bearings repacked?

[Pathfinder3.5]

so guys...how wil you know if the balljoint is close to breaking??? Would it be just be better to get it replaced when I get my wheel bearings repacked?

The scary thing is that mine was cracked in half. There would be no way of telling if it was about to break since it was still intact. Most balljoints that are bad will have some play in them.

Everybody says I am lucky im not sitting in a hospital bed right now. It was a last second decision for me to attempt to park where i tried to. If I didn't do that it would of failed on me while I was driving down the road.

[zach7685]

Dang...I'll call the owners after I call state farm to file a comprehensive claim.

[miamiheat3332]

Looks nice, i like it.

If you have access to some square tubing, and a welder - i think if you fabbed up a straight angled bumper guard type thing, without the factory bumper on would make it look real mean.

Something like this but on a smaller scale to fit the paths proportions, and paint it black

[PJSnow]

silvapathy. did you put on new fender flares that are really small or did you just take off the stock ones and paint the edge? if you did buy flares what are they?