Features & Details: Built for OBS Dodge and Heavy-Duty Trucks
This Super HD Ball Joint Kit is engineered for demanding applications, especially for classic Old Body Style (OBS) Dodge trucks and other heavy-duty vehicles. If you’re looking to enhance the performance and durability of your suspension system, particularly on your Obs Dodge Ram, this kit provides a significant upgrade over standard ball joints.
Kit Contents:
- 2 Upper Ball Joints
- 2 Lower Ball Joints
Vehicle Fitment:
This versatile kit is compatible with a range of heavy-duty trucks, ensuring a perfect fit for your vehicle:
- Dodge RAM 2500 (1994-1999) 4WD: Specifically designed for OBS Dodge Ram 2500 models, enhancing your 4WD system.
- Dodge RAM 3500 (1994-1999) 2WD & 4WD: Ideal for both 2WD and 4WD Dodge Ram 3500 OBS trucks, providing robust performance.
- Ford Bronco (1980-1996) 2WD & 4WD
- Ford Excursion (2000-2005) 4WD
- Ford F-150 (1980-1996) 4WD
- Ford F-250 (1980-2009) 4WD
- Ford F-250 HD (1997) 4WD
- Ford F-250 Super Duty (1999-2019) 4WD
- Ford F-350 (1980-2015) 4WD
- Ford F-350 Super Duty (1999-2016) 4WD
- Ford F-450 Super Duty (1999-2016) 2WD & 4WD
- Ford F-550 Super Duty (1999-2004) 2WD & 4WD
Description: Engineered for Superior Performance and Longevity
This Super HD Ball Joint Kit is meticulously designed with premium materials and advanced engineering to deliver unparalleled strength, durability, and performance, particularly for OBS Dodge trucks and other heavy-duty applications. Every component is crafted to exceed OEM standards, ensuring a reliable and long-lasting upgrade for your vehicle’s suspension.
Housing: Uncompromising Strength and Precision
- SAE 1045 Solid Steel Forged Housing: The housings are constructed from SAE 1045 solid steel, forged for maximum strength and resilience. This specific carbon alloy steel is recognized as the optimal material for ball joint housings due to its exceptional durability under stress. For OBS Dodge owners and heavy-duty truck enthusiasts, this means reliable performance even in demanding conditions.
- Knurled Housings: Featuring knurled housings, this kit is designed for secure and easy aftermarket installations. The knurling enhances grip and prevents slippage, crucial for maintaining alignment and stability, especially in OBS Dodge and older vehicle applications.
- CNC Machined Housing: Precision is paramount. Each housing is CNC machined to ensure dimensional perfection. This manufacturing process eliminates inconsistencies and die wear issues, guaranteeing that each ball joint meets exact specifications for optimal fit and performance in your OBS Dodge or other compatible truck.
Ball Studs: Maximum Strength and Smooth Operation
- SAE 4140 Hot Forged Chromoly Ball Studs: The ball studs are made from SAE 4140 hot forged Chromoly steel. This material choice provides the strongest possible metallurgy, ensuring the ball studs can withstand extreme loads and stresses. For OBS Dodge trucks often used for towing or off-roading, this robust construction is essential.
- Induction Heat Treated Ball Studs: To further enhance strength and durability, the ball studs undergo induction heat treatment. This precise heat treatment process targets specific depths and locations, optimizing the material properties exactly where needed for maximum load-bearing capacity and wear resistance. This is critical for the longevity of ball joints in OBS Dodge and similar heavy vehicles.
- Polished Ball Studs: Engineered for smooth, friction-free operation, the ball studs are polished to extremely precise tolerances. This polished surface minimizes friction and wear, contributing to extended ball joint life and consistent steering performance. Think of them as anti-friction bearings, ensuring smooth movement and responsiveness in your OBS Dodge steering system.
- Rolled Threads: Unlike cut threads, rolled threads are created by pressing the thread shape into the ball stud material. This process strengthens the threads, making them more resistant to stripping and damage. Rolled threads also facilitate smoother hardware movement during installation, simplifying the process and improving overall assembly integrity – a welcome feature when working on older vehicles like OBS Dodge trucks.
- Step Threads: Designed for ease of installation and superior holding power, step threads allow for smooth hardware movement during installation while providing exceptional grip when torqued to specification. This installer-friendly design is particularly beneficial when replacing ball joints on OBS Dodge vehicles, making the process more efficient and reliable.
Bearing Design: Military-Grade Durability
- Military Grade Acetal Bearing: Utilizing military-grade Acetal bearing material, this kit ensures exceptional performance and longevity. This is the same bearing material specified by the U.S. military for Hummer ball joints, underscoring its superior quality and reliability. Acetal bearings are dimensionally stable, resistant to expansion or contraction due to temperature or moisture, and exhibit excellent anti-friction properties. They are designed to withstand extreme pounding and heavy loads without wearing out like traditional metal-on-metal designs, making them ideal for demanding applications, including OBS Dodge trucks and off-road vehicles.
Boots: Ultimate Protection Against Contaminants
- CR Rubber Boots: The boots are constructed from CR (Chloroprene Rubber), the most durable material for undercar applications. CR rubber is highly resistant to deterioration from road-level ozone, oil, gas, engine fluids, and extreme temperatures, both hot and cold. This robust boot material ensures long-lasting protection against contaminants, crucial for maintaining ball joint integrity, especially in the harsh environments OBS Dodge trucks often encounter.
- UPPER: Internal Seal Boot: The upper ball joints feature an internal seal boot that is coined onto the ball joint housing. This design creates a superior seal against contaminants, preventing dirt, debris, and moisture from entering the joint and causing premature wear. This enhanced sealing is particularly important for the upper ball joints, which are more exposed to road grime and elements.
- LOWER: Integral Pancake Boot: The lower ball joints utilize an integral pancake boot design, providing robust protection while accommodating the lower joint’s movement and position. This boot design effectively seals out contaminants while allowing for the necessary range of motion in the lower suspension components of your OBS Dodge or other compatible vehicle.
Finish: Rugged Durability and Corrosion Resistance
- Phosphate Finish: The ball joint components are treated with a phosphate finish, providing an extremely durable, double-coated layer of protection. This finish not only offers a rugged look but also significantly enhances corrosion resistance, ensuring long-term durability even in harsh environments. This protective finish is essential for maintaining the integrity of the ball joints on OBS Dodge trucks and vehicles exposed to road salt and moisture.
Hardware: Superior Strength and Reliability
- Grade 8 – Class 10.9 Hardware: The kit includes Grade 8 – Class 10.9 hardware, providing superior tensile strength and reliability. This high-grade hardware ensures secure and robust connections, capable of withstanding the demanding loads and vibrations encountered in heavy-duty applications, including OBS Dodge trucks and off-road vehicles.
- UPPER: Castle Nut: The upper ball joints utilize castle nuts, an industry standard in applications where high vibration loads are present. Castle nuts provide a secure and reliable fastening solution, preventing loosening under vibration and ensuring long-term joint integrity, particularly crucial for the upper ball joints in OBS Dodge suspension systems.
- LOWER: Tension Nut: The lower ball joints are equipped with tension nuts, offering a very strong hold in most applications. Tension nuts provide excellent clamping force and secure fastening, ensuring the lower ball joints remain firmly in place under load and stress, contributing to overall suspension stability in your OBS Dodge or other compatible truck.
Lubrication: Ensuring Long-Term Performance
- Pre-threaded Zerk Housing: The pre-threaded Zerk housing simplifies grease fitting installation. Anyone who has installed MOOG ball joints without this feature will appreciate this user-friendly design. This small detail makes greasing the ball joints significantly easier, a definite advantage for DIY mechanics and professionals alike working on OBS Dodge vehicles.
- Greaseable: These ball joints are greaseable, allowing for regular lubrication to maintain optimal performance and extend service life. Regular greasing is essential for flushing out contaminants and reducing friction, ensuring smooth operation and longevity, especially in demanding applications such as OBS Dodge trucks and off-road driving.
- Pre-Greased: For added convenience, the ball joints are pre-greased, ensuring they are ready for installation right out of the box. This pre-lubrication provides initial protection and ensures smooth operation from the start, even if you forget to grease them immediately after installation.
- Gull Winged Grease Grooves: The gull-winged grease grooves are designed to improve grease distribution around the ball stud. This enhanced lubrication disbursement ensures that grease reaches all critical areas, reducing friction and wear, and contributing to extended ball joint life, particularly important for maintaining optimal performance in OBS Dodge and other heavy-duty trucks.
- Zerk Fittings: Zerk fittings are included for every application, ensuring easy and convenient greasing. The inclusion of Zerk fittings makes regular maintenance straightforward, allowing you to easily lubricate the ball joints and maintain their performance over time.
Special Features: Customized for Optimal Performance
- Custom Features: The UPPER ball joints in this kit include multiple Zerk fittings for each application. This customized feature provides enhanced lubrication options and ensures thorough grease distribution, further maximizing the performance and lifespan of the upper ball joints, especially in demanding applications like OBS Dodge trucks.
This Super HD Ball Joint Kit is the ultimate upgrade for your OBS Dodge or heavy-duty truck, providing unmatched strength, durability, and performance. Invest in quality and ensure your vehicle is equipped to handle any challenge.
