C20 Steering & Suspension Rebuild

[philo_beddoe]

Nice factory GM look,,,,lol

[LTZ C20]

Hahahahaha.













no.

[philo_beddoe]

You put those on your truck and you could get banned from the site. Lol

[LTZ C20]

Alright so I now have both lower control arms and they are the same. Well I'm hoping they are, they were last time I checked and they shouldn't have magically changed.

So now I think other than sway bar bushings and shocks, I should have everything. The bushing I should be able to get at O'Reilly's and the shocks, well we already covered my plan for them.

[philo_beddoe]

Could all of your parts have been purchased from that big online catalog company that we cant mention,,or even any of the others, or from chris at the site store. Im curious because i may do that at some point.

[LTZ C20]

No shipping costs when ordered thru work. I did order the things from the big place in the middle of USA that I couldn't get from work. I would have loved to order stuff from the site store but none of that stuff was on it.

[Irish_Alley]

Nice factory GM look,,,,lol

this must be for a ford owner. cause us chevy owners know to open the door before you step on the step to climb in

[LTZ C20]

Nice factory GM look,,,,lol

this must be for a ford owner. cause us chevy owners know to open the door before you step on the step to climb in

LMAO.

[philo_beddoe]

Nice factory GM look,,,,lol

this must be for a ford owner. cause us chevy owners know to open the door before you step on the step to climb in

Yeah...good observation!!

[LTZ C20]

Does anyone happen to know what size the threads are on the grease zerks for these trucks and if all of the zerks are the same size or if some of them are different sizes?

I'm looking at getting a few 90° zerks to make lubing easier and the little rubber covers the keep them clean.

[bd]

Should be 1/4" x 28 TPI taper thread.

[LTZ C20]

Should be 1/4" x 28 TPI taper thread.

So all of them, regardless of location, are the same?

[bd]

They should be.  Of course, there is no guarantee with any parts imported from overseas.  Incidentally, that thread size and pitch is common to most pre-90s domestic highway vehicles built to accept grease fittings - although there maybe exceptions.

[LTZ C20]

Ok cool. I've looked around at new ones and that seems to be a very common size. My plan with the fittings is to make the ones that are more difficult to access more easily accessible and the ones that are already easy, even easier. I'll explain.

I had the truck up on one of the lifts at work today and had a grease gun in my hand. I went to each fitting and attempted to grease it cleanly, quickly and easily. I found that there could be some improvements.

The current arrangement of fittings is:
-The upper control arms, on their chassis side, have 90° fittings, all of which point in a slightly seperate directions.
-All other fittings are straight. This makes access a bit difficult in some spots.

My plan is to change the fittings out so that:
-the upper control arms have 45° zerks.
-the upper ball joints have 45°s and the lower ball joints have 90° zerks.
-the lower control arms have 90°s on front facing zerks and straight fitting for the rear facing zerks.
-the outer tie rods will get 45° fittings and the inner tie rods will get 90° fittings.
-the pitman arm and idler arm will both get one 90° each, leaving one fitting on the idler a straight zerk.

Here are some pics to help. Observe the current positions of the fittings. Then imagine each with the fittings changed to the degree listed above for each part. Note: the lower ball joint, inner tie Rod and lower idler arm fittings are not visible in the pics.









Also, I would like to install grease fitting dust caps, where would be the best place to find caps like this? I don't need fancy colors, black is just fine.

[brewster]

I just googled grease fitting caps, I have never purchased any, but the first thing that came up on google was fastenal and they had some in every color and it was a 50ct for like 6 dollars,
Here is the link:
https://www.fastenal.com/products/details/0425915;jsessionid=73EEB7DFB6B49183F3ED3BA75B2E2DC1.fcomjvm01?r=~|categoryl1:%22603582%20Power%20Transmission%209and%20Motors%22|~%20~|categoryl2:%22610430%20Grease%20Fitting%20Products%22|~%20~|categoryl3:%22609893%20Grease%20Fitting%20Caps%22|~


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