Nitro Gear UCA’s for $20 on EBay

[Fzj80 1997]

I saw these on eBay and thought a low ball wouldn’t hurt. Offered them $20 and they accepted. There is one set left.

Pardon Our Interruption...

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[tbisaacs]

My brother in law had a low mile set of these fail catastrophically at LCDC in Ouray last year. Search the 100 series board, lots of other similar stories.

 

[Fzj80 1997]

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My brother in law had a low mile set of these fail catastrophically at LCDC in Ouray last year. Search the 100 series board, lots of other similar stories.

That looks concerning to say the least… How many miles did he have on them? I did a quick search in the 100 series section and on google with the key words nitro gear ball joint failure and the only thing that comes up are for SPC products. Would you mind pointing me in the right direction if possible?

 

[tbisaacs]

That looks concerning to say the least… How many miles did he have on them? I did a quick search in the 100 series section and on google with the key words nitro gear ball joint failure and the only thing that comes up are for SPC products. Would you mind pointing me in the right direction if possible?

Yea SPC seemed to have a bad run for a while too. I’m running the redesigned ones and hoping the ball joint issue is resolved.

My brother in law had less than 30k miles on his nitros.

Who’s got Nitro Gear UCA’s?

reviews? longevity? comparison to SPCs? maintenance?

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Thread 'Nitro Gear still in business? Need parts and they don't respond to messages'

Apr 29, 2021

I have Nitro Gear UCAs that need new polymer bushings (yet again......4th set in 3 years). Been calling for 3 weeks and leaving messages, emailed and messaged on Facebook. Zero response. I see their pop up ads here, but they have been silent.

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Sep 20, 2022

Wanted to share my experience with this deal so far.

Placed order online Sept 9th. Credit card was immediately charged, but I didn't receive an order confirmation. Traded phone calls and emails over the course of the entire following week before someone managed to find my order. Was then informed that the warehouse may take several weeks to ship them and to reach back out to them if I didn't see a shipment notification by the end of the month.

Overall it's unfortunately been a very poor experience as a customer. However I'll also admit that I'm not in any kind of rush to get these, so...

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[Supra Turbo]

Per the last thread linked above, seems there was a bad batch of nitro ucas at some point. Could be similar case to SPCs where they were redesigned. Unless the set that failed was confirmed to be outside of the bad batch run @tbisaacs ?

 

[TLC2013]

I have been using nitro gear UCAs for 6 six years, been Happy with them. My initial set had the recalled UBJs…. So i Picked up a second set when they were on sale, cheap but no where near the deal you scored, and they had newer UBJs that are good to go. Here’s some info on them and the recall. You can check the serial number on the ball joint to confirm if it’s in the recalled series.

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Nitro UCA too good to pass up? - https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/nitro-uca-too-good-to-pass-up.1292296/post-14607273

 

[hoser]

My Nitro UCA's have also been fine... except moisture intrusion. Could be water crossings or snow runs. Cap has a rubber o-ring so probably coming in from the bottom. Maybe coat the cup with some grease. The balljoints are 2nd Tundra ball joints. Unfortunately, Toyota doesn't sell them, so you have to choose aftermarket.