Is my grid heater dying?

[Mace]

I replaced my control arms a couple years ago with Stryker’s as they’re a tad longer for levelled trucks and the bushings are greaseable.

 

You can center your wheel by adjusting the drag link by the pitman arm.

[Doubletrouble]

That is something I may have to do in the future as well. I've pulled and pushed on the control arms and couldn't get any movement but when someone rides on the passenger side they say they can feel something knocking under their feet when we hit a bump. I can hear anything from the driver's seat. I know the body mount is tight, I've checked that. Only other thing in that area would be the control arm mounts.

[Sycostang67]

3 hours ago, Mace said:

I replaced my control arms a couple years ago with Stryker’s as they’re a tad longer for levelled trucks and the bushings are greaseable.

 

You can center your wheel by adjusting the drag link by the pitman arm.

I’ve had to do that before but my control arms are so far out of adjustment now that I’ll let the shop handle it.  I had planned to reinstall the adjusters in the same position I removed them from as I marked them beforehand.  After the sawzall, torch and grinder, the marks were lost.  Rotating the alignment bolts also made getting the upper arms back in easier as well. 

[Mopar1973Man]

On 1/26/2025 at 12:49 PM, Sycostang67 said:

After the sawzall, torch and grinder, the marks were lost.

That sucks. But the truth is just because you can hit the old adjustment doesn't mean it will be the same setting as the old bushings or front-end parts. I tried doing the same for tierod replacement and adjusted to the same length of threads measured but because of small differences, it ate the front tires up in a mere 250-mile trip.

[Sycostang67]

I had scheduled an alignment the week prior.  I get one done anytime I mess with steering parts or anything that could affect the alignment.   The shop I prefer is about 20 miles away so I mainly didn’t want the truck to behave poorly during that time.  I took slower back roads as well, just in case.  No issues though, got it aligned this morning.  Truck is quieter now and takes most bumps a lot smoother.   Just pulling into my driveway is so much better than before.