Good thorough video guys. I'm a while off getting to do mine, but when that day comes I'll be checking back to this video multiple times. I do appreciate how you mention nut sizes, torque specs, and reassembly sequencing.
At 7:50 into the video... it’s the steering damper. It makes bump steering smoother in 4x4 models. I’m not sure about 2 wheel drive. We are hunting for an available product now. Rough Country does make one. Great videos as always brothers. 🙏🏼🇨🇦⚓️
If you haven’t yet, refreshing these things on the Mazda would be great. I’m going to be doing that soon to my B2000 as well. I have a lot of worn components as well
Great Vid! I don't have the time to do this procedure but I'm watching this vid to find out what parts I need to order from Rock Auto when I take it to my mechanic. Because nothing sucks more than finding out you forgot to order something when you have everything torn apart.👍
Hell ya! About do the same thing but my truck too. Balljoints are toast Mine is bagged lays frame. Trying to find something to fix my negative camber issues at ride height either shit load of shims long bolts or sum 4x4 pathfinder UCA's idk...
Yeah you might want to run some pathfinder arms and get a custom kit that lets you adjust the length of the arm at the top. That’ll be the only way to fix the negative camber on it. Good luck brother
Hey I’m looking at doing the Belltech drop with my factory 14 chrome wheels. Can you talk about clearance or show issues with clearance in a future video. I hear about possible issues with the radius arms and the factory wheels.
You cannot use the factory wheels with the drop spindles from belltech. You need to upgrade to 16s or could do 15” with the right offset like 0 or - something but I would recommend 16 or higher
I think that is the easiest way to go about it. If you are only taking off the lower ball joint, you might be able to get away with just loosing the spindle and leaving it connected to the upper ball joint
So did you use the stock spring clips for the balljoints or the ones with the new ones because my new cheap duralast balljoints have thinner spring clipping and the stock ones to me look better had to do some other things abouts to wrap it all up getting read to relocation of my shocks up front fully bagged!!!
We ordered our parts through rockauto.com so we used all the new hardware it came with. If you feel the old clip is better, stronger and in good shape than the new one then I’d just reuse that one
Help! What is the vertical bar [edit it is a bolt with bushings not a bar] next to the lower control arm ball joint between the ball joint and the shock mount called?? Mine is broken... I don't know what it is named 🤔edit: I do now. Stabilizer bar link. Tx
@@FlakeGarage thanks its the stabilizer bar link figured it out after searching the book and online finally someone named it during a ball joint swap thanks though I appreciate the time you took to get back to me
Damm my boot ripped off the boot ring I was look at the top the boot ring lol just had to pull it off. So Got everything out and its Allready to put the new one also im putting pathfinder 4WD UCA's in fliped and swapped but because they are an 1" longer it will help with my really bad negative camber thanks for the good videos!
Did you get the master adapter kit? Check out that part on the video for the numbers we used. You might have to use another one just to get it to tighten a bit to then push the rest of it
Hey guys it's Brandon I've got a 97 hard body and I'm dropping it putting rims on it right now do you know if they make 3-in drop spindles or only just 2-in drop spindles to belt tech because I'm doing 4-in in the rear and I want to do the drop spindle so I don't have bad camber but I don't want to be sitting higher in the front than the rear you understand let me know if they make any 3 or 4-inch drop spins thanks
Hey Brandon, as far as we know there is no such thing as a 3 or 4 inch drop spindle for the hardbody. To get that low you have to do the 2 inch spindle plus torsion bars
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That thing you didnt know at 7:35 is for the steering stabilizer if you 're planning to install one.
Thanks for the info bro!
Good thorough video guys. I'm a while off getting to do mine, but when that day comes I'll be checking back to this video multiple times. I do appreciate how you mention nut sizes, torque specs, and reassembly sequencing.
At 7:50 into the video... it’s the steering damper. It makes bump steering smoother in 4x4 models. I’m not sure about 2 wheel drive. We are hunting for an available product now. Rough Country does make one. Great videos as always brothers. 🙏🏼🇨🇦⚓️
Thanks for the info!
Dang, wish u guys were local to have you refresh my hardbody
Just in time when i am working on my mazda b2000 and needed the idea of what to refresh on
If you haven’t yet, refreshing these things on the Mazda would be great. I’m going to be doing that soon to my B2000 as well. I have a lot of worn components as well
Great Vid!
I don't have the time to do this procedure but I'm watching this vid to find out what parts I need to order from Rock Auto when I take it to my mechanic.
Because nothing sucks more than finding out you forgot to order something when you have everything torn apart.👍
Rockauto is definitely the place to buy these parts, they are cheap there 👍🏼
Hell ya! About do the same thing but my truck too. Balljoints are toast Mine is bagged lays frame. Trying to find something to fix my negative camber issues at ride height either shit load of shims long bolts or sum 4x4 pathfinder UCA's idk...
Yeah you might want to run some pathfinder arms and get a custom kit that lets you adjust the length of the arm at the top. That’ll be the only way to fix the negative camber on it. Good luck brother
Thanks for your video
nice i want to do this to my truck this summer
check out the description on the spindle video on our channel for a list of tools you most likely will need!
Hey I’m looking at doing the Belltech drop with my factory 14 chrome wheels. Can you talk about clearance or show issues with clearance in a future video. I hear about possible issues with the radius arms and the factory wheels.
You cannot use the factory wheels with the drop spindles from belltech. You need to upgrade to 16s or could do 15” with the right offset like 0 or - something but I would recommend 16 or higher
Parts list would be appreciated. thanks.
Nice info will be doing this in the future. Where you guys from
We are from Texas
@@FlakeGarage o i see thats cool ✌
So how is the suspension now? Was that kit from Amazon any good?
Still rocking the kit but keep in mind Bryan isn't driving the truck daily
Nice video guys! Is it necessary to completely remove the spindle in order to change the lower ball joint??
I think that is the easiest way to go about it. If you are only taking off the lower ball joint, you might be able to get away with just loosing the spindle and leaving it connected to the upper ball joint
Can u guys do a swaybar end links ?
So far they are in good shape on the hardbody. We might have one coming out for the Mazda on the links that you can use as reference at least
So did you use the stock spring clips for the balljoints or the ones with the new ones because my new cheap duralast balljoints have thinner spring clipping and the stock ones to me look better had to do some other things abouts to wrap it all up getting read to relocation of my shocks up front fully bagged!!!
We ordered our parts through rockauto.com so we used all the new hardware it came with. If you feel the old clip is better, stronger and in good shape than the new one then I’d just reuse that one
What size tire do you use?
Help! What is the vertical bar [edit it is a bolt with bushings not a bar] next to the lower control arm ball joint between the ball joint and the shock mount called?? Mine is broken... I don't know what it is named 🤔edit: I do now. Stabilizer bar link. Tx
Not sure which bar you might be referring to
@@FlakeGarage thanks its the stabilizer bar link figured it out after searching the book and online finally someone named it during a ball joint swap thanks though I appreciate the time you took to get back to me
Where can I buy this part online,,and shipping to word wide?
Could you tell a big difference after the change?
The truck seem to drive smoother
Link for the parts used.
So doing my lower joints pulled the boot pretty shur all of it cut off but I'm not seeing no dang snap ring??
It should be in there and if not, I guess there’s a chance you might of been running around without one 😬
Damm my boot ripped off the boot ring I was look at the top the boot ring lol just had to pull it off.
So Got everything out and its Allready to put the new one also im putting pathfinder 4WD UCA's in fliped and swapped but because they are an 1" longer it will help with my really bad negative camber
thanks for the good videos!
Did you get the master adapter kit? Check out that part on the video for the numbers we used. You might have to use another one just to get it to tighten a bit to then push the rest of it
What wheels are on the red Toyota looks stiff
Hey guys it's Brandon I've got a 97 hard body and I'm dropping it putting rims on it right now do you know if they make 3-in drop spindles or only just 2-in drop spindles to belt tech because I'm doing 4-in in the rear and I want to do the drop spindle so I don't have bad camber but I don't want to be sitting higher in the front than the rear you understand let me know if they make any 3 or 4-inch drop spins thanks
Hey Brandon, as far as we know there is no such thing as a 3 or 4 inch drop spindle for the hardbody. To get that low you have to do the 2 inch spindle plus torsion bars
How much was all the parts ?
Where’s part 1 and 2?
Part 1 was lowering blocks and part 2 was front spindles. This is part 3 on our hardbody suspension series
I have a question for u
What’s up?
Where did you get the rims from
Steering Bar is for a 4x4.
They all look the same. Even the OEM on the 2wd looks like that
They are the same, just the 4x4 use the tabs for a steering stabilizer.