Ball joints wearing out?
JK Freak
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Went through 2 sets of synergy BJs at about 20k miles each. Put in some dynatracs bjs instead--so far so good, but only time will tell. The other thing w/ synergy ball joints are that they are all knurled. This may slightly open up the holes in the C's, possibly preventing you from ever going back to a non-knurled ball joint. Because of this, I had to order the dynatracs in a knurled version since I ran synergy's previously. I was a little annoyed.
JK Freak
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Went through 2 sets of synergy BJs at about 20k miles each. Put in some dynatracs bjs instead--so far so good, but only time will tell. The other thing w/ synergy ball joints are that they are all knurled. This may slightly open up the holes in the C's, possibly preventing you from ever going back to a non-knurled ball joint. Because of this, I had to order the dynatracs in a knurled version since I ran synergy's previously. I was a little annoyed.
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I'm having a place install my synergy ball joints in a couple days I'll let you know how they feel after I get rid of the worn stock ones.
they quoted me $450 for the install!? That sounds like a lot of money to me for a ball joint install!?
they quoted me $450 for the install!? That sounds like a lot of money to me for a ball joint install!?
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From: RSM, CA
Not having any issues with my bj's knocking on wood, i'm running baby tires so i hope the stockers will last some, currently at 45k miles, but since i was curious about how much would it cost to replace this items, i emailed one of our local Jeep shops, and they quoted me $550 for the install, the ball joints are the US alloy ones, which were quoted at $175. At another forum i was told this were pretty much like the Synergy but cheaper, same quality.
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I'd say that's ridiculous since anyone with a wrench can do it themselves.
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Its hard to say if they drove the same new, because the synergys were shot and were wobbling all over the place by the time I put the dynatracs in.