I am not going to lie....

[1996BLKBauer]

But Aligning Explorers stinks!!!! I spent 4 hours yesterday aligning my Explorer, not to mention the 2 hours installing the Caster/Camber washers. It is insanely difficult to adjust the washers, and then torque them to 100 ft lbs. Not to mention if you are stupid like me and keep the factory upper control arm on the passenger side, AND forget about it until the washers are maxed out on adjustment. Then I had to adjust the caster with that, then re align the washers. Even Adjusting the Toe was nightmare! All I can say is I hate rust, I hate installing those washers, but I am very happy that my truck drives strait down the road again!

***Rant Over!

 

[my98nnj]

I put ball joints in at around 85k miles. Truck just hit 100k this fall. I threw it up on the rack and was shocked to see everything in the green. It's driven straight down the road it's whole life!

 

[RomeovilleIL]

... Even Adjusting the Toe was nightmare!...

Hmmm. Shouldn't be that bad. Always prefered working on Explorers and other 4x4 trucks when setting toe since the tie rods are right up front and unobstructed. (Most front wheel drive passenger cars have tie rods located behind the engine with the adjustment sleeve inside the splash guards when steering is dead centered which is not so easy to reach and adjust.) Was it just a case of frozen adjustment sleeves? If there was a lot of rust it may have been better to just change them out (not a horribly expensive part, nor super difficult to swap).

Anyway... glad you got it done.

 

[1996BLKBauer]

I put ball joints in at around 85k miles. Truck just hit 100k this fall. I threw it up on the rack and was shocked to see everything in the green. It's driven straight down the road it's whole life!

For mine EVERYTHING was in red, I knew it was going to be bad when it showed up on he screen like that.

Hmmm. Shouldn't be that bad. Always prefered working on Explorers and other 4x4 trucks when setting toe since the tie rods are right up front and unobstructed. (Most front wheel drive passenger cars have tie rods located behind the engine with the adjustment sleeve inside the splash guards when steering is dead centered which is not so easy to reach and adjust.) Was it just a case of frozen adjustment sleeves? If there was a lot of rust it may have been better to just change them out (not a horribly expensive part, nor super difficult to swap).

Anyway... glad you got it done.

It wasn't horrilbe, but there was A TON of rust on the thread, and the lock nut was seized on there, had to play with it for 5 mins so it would spin freely. It would have been much easier to just replace those I agree.