I have a 2001 xtreme blazer and have started having suspension problems recently. The truck is lowered more than the factory lowering from GM for the xtremes and there is a bad knocking in the right front and i got all of the suspension replaced A-arms, shocks the works and it stopped for a month or two and has continued again and getting worse any advice or any clue what could be wrong?
2001 xtreme blazer please help!?
Nov 19, 2005
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Yea. It's lowered. You bastardized a good truck and now you're having problems. Live with it.
Was it lowered using lowering spindles? Are the castings made of aluminum? If this method wasn't used how was it lowered? Lowering by cutting springs, or heating them, letting the torsion bars down etc can cause the ball joints to fail as the stud hits the ball joint housing when its forced to try and move beyond its designed range.. Using the stock shocks with out moving the upper mount higher will result in the shock "bottoming out" and can cause the shock to break. can also cause the shock bushings to fail and then you can get a 'banging" noise.
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