LCA ball joint failure.

[Atwalz]

Well there ya go, damn aftermarket junk! LOL

Junk it was. Never doing that again. Good to be alive!

 

[Atwalz]

pair of new LCA are here.

 

[silverhorse]

Junk it was. Never doing that again. Good to be alive!

Amen to that brother! Seriously something like that happening makes you reflect and be thankful! We all need reminders, i know i do...

 

[silverhorse]

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pair of new LCA are here.

Thats what you call, peace of mind! priceless!

 

[cruiseroutfit]

We’ve seen quite a few super sloppy OE Toyota joints (primarily after a Baja 1000 race ) but also on high mileage & big tire 200’s. We offer a 555 Japanese ball joint that has been very well vetted as a 200 replacement. Of course new arms represent a know reliable ball joint and the bonus of a new arm with fresh inner bushings too. Just another option fwiw.

 

[Markuson]

Yesterday, as I left home, I heard click sound. I pulled over in the parking lot to check the suspension. It was dark and could properly see what happened. As I started to back out, my LCA separated from steering knuckle. I had truck towed to home. Later inspection revealed that it was a ball joint failure. I am lucky that it happened at low speed and parking lot. I am not going to speculate how it failed and how long it was like this. It had an initial crack and then final failure. So don’t ignore suspension sounds. I typically inspect all fasteners visually if anything is loose. But in this case, it was not discovered during visual inspection. I am replacing both LCA with OEM tundra.

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Oh no!
So sorry, but glad everyone is safe!
That’s nuts... I don’t recall seeing that kind of catastrophic failure here before.

 

[gaijin]

When I saw the title of this thread, "LCA Ball Joint Failure," it immediately caught my attention. I read through the first page and became more and more concerned. How could Toyota produce a part that could fail in this manner? Then I saw:

It was an aftermarket tundra arm.

Well... geez. Perhaps a better thread title should have been, "Aftermarket Tundra LCA Ball Joint Failure."

Just sayin'

 

[04UZJ100]

Perfect example of why you don’t buy non-OEM critical components.

glad you’re ok!

 

[Atwalz]

Not all aftermarket parts are bad. In this case it was defective part. Other side did not break. My Camburg upper control arms are much stronger than OEM. Just saying

 

[Markuson]

When I saw the title of this thread, "LCA Ball Joint Failure," it immediately caught my attention. I read through the first page and became more and more concerned. How could Toyota produce a part that could fail in this manner? Then I saw:


Well... geez. Perhaps a better thread title should have been, "Aftermarket Tundra LCA Ball Joint Failure."

Just sayin'

Same reaction here.
Skimming through text is hard for me these days, so I was similarly shocked to see this.....UNTIL...I finally found the "aftermarket" thing. Same thing happened with CV's x2 for one friend here...