FASTFATBOY

iTrader: (23)

Just wondering, I know they wear fairly quick street driving them.


David

RAGENZ28

iTrader: (5)

I had my 4 link car, for me I tossed them around once a year or when they have more than 1mm play in them. I drove mine all the time, I also cleaned and greased them regularly, a major factor in wear is having dirty, non-grease joints, also I used marine grade grease, it's water proof.

FASTFATBOY

iTrader: (23)

Mine dont have grease fittings, just rub it on them?

David

JL ws-6

iTrader: (50)

the ones I have are the teflon lined type, they've been on the car for 5 years with about 8000 miles of street use, they've loosened up some, but not to the point that they clack or anything. I've got no intention of replacing them anytime soon.

FASTFATBOY

iTrader: (23)

Mine are NON teflon lined.

David

RAGENZ28

iTrader: (5)

Yep just take them off and clean then up with some thing to remove the old grease and dirt and then rub some grease on them and spin the rod end ball around, they also make seals to cover the rod ends to help keep dirt out.

It may or may not be a preference as far as the time to change yours, they are fairly expensive, but remember if you have a rod end failure the chance of crashing is pretty dang good.

JL ws-6

iTrader: (50)

In that case, you want to keep them greased and as clean as you can to keep them from wearing out. A good coating of grease to help stop dirt from getting inside the joints will help, that and frequent cleaning.

Good news is, that when they do eventually wear out, you can get the teflon lines ones, and proabably have 5 times longer life with them. The ones my suspension was built with are the same ones that are used on circle track cars and dirt oval stuff, so they're meant to take a beating, and have done very well so far IMO.