OT NEED SOME ADVICE BALL JOINTS

lenray

Well-known Member
We bought a used Newmar Motor Home diesel pusher with 12,000 miles. Almost perfect condition. Iowa farmer bought and passed.
The front end is a Reyco Gramming on a Spartan chassis and the rubber around the ball joints is bad. There are many hundreds of these out there with the same problem. The ones that have been replaced have also gone bad in a short time. According to info. on the net it costs about 2-3 K to have them replaced with no help from the 2 companies.
Also no grease fittings. Many feel that due to the very short turning radius it destroys the rubber.
Any ideas on what I can do---will probably drive less than a 1000 miles per year and all on paved roads. It is a well know fact about this in the MH industry. Thank you
 
As long as the ball joint is not loose(within wear specs) I would drive it.
At 1,000 miles a year it would take ten years to wear a joint that had never been greased, and yours was once anyway.Just MO
 
all the rubber does is keep dirt out of the ball
joint I am with 504 if they are not showing wear not to worry about it.
Ypop
 
Just for the heck of it I looked over at some RV
sites and dealers were charging from $200 to $500 per ball joint. Plus there is labor for instalation. I have owned some oddball tractors and different sized trucks. Never would pay a fraction of that.
There are a lot complaints about ball joint costs on the RV forums. If I had one, I would get a pickle fork(NAPA) and knock one part and take it to NAPA.
Raygo is a fairly well known name and I can not believe they would come up with a ball joint that expensive.
 
If you, anyone, has a vehicle with plugs in the ball joints, would you change them to grease zerks? If so, at how many miles?

Dusty
 

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