Do I need new knuckles? Where can I get them?

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NorthTexasDylan

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Stock frame mounts. I also just found the installation instructions and it does not appear as though the lift kit came with new UCAs so stock ones should work.
 

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I just went out and looked and compared them to the pics online and they appear to be on the correct side.

Why do you get new control arms when you buy a lift kit? I would assume it is because there is a difference between the stock ones and the ones that are used on a lift kit. I ordered stock ones from 1aauto.com not thinking about the lift kit that was installed.

http://www.1aauto.com/control-arm-with-ball-joint-front-pair/i/1asfk01742?f=748247&y=1997

I think you're on to something here.
 

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Stock frame mounts. I also just found the installation instructions and it does not appear as though the lift kit came with new UCAs so stock ones should work.

Now I would suspect your lower bracket of being goofy, pulling your lower arms in perhaps.
 

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Well I just looked at several sites with several lift kits for these trucks and non-include new UCAs. I am sitting here with my Dad and that was his idea. But he only has experience with Cognito on LMLs. So he was not sure.

I am going to snap some more pics tomorrow of the upper and lower control arms, the brackets and the angle both with and without weight on the tire and with the tire removed.

Thanks guys!!!
 

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When you lift ifs with stock control arms in stock mounts your narrowing you front wheel base and you dont want to do that when you're going up. Now they can make the block widen the uca but not the bottom.
 
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