Found out the hard away about these eccentric sleeves for alignment being frozen in the original control arm. Only 1 was frozen. Cut it out awaiting replacement in the mail. Other than that all ball joints were pretty easy to move by hand. Ran JBA uppers and freedom lowers. Ready to see how it drives after alignment getting caster and camber within spec again.
Ball joints are shot after 136k miles. Noticed they're bad after doing inner and outer tie rods. Not going over 2" lift ony kyb jaos system. Figured I'd go the 1.5-3" lift caster arms from JBA for bolt in ball joints to get camber and caster back into spec. Opted for Freedom off-road lowers to renew bushings and ball joints. They run rubber instead of poly. Got 10% off with my mil discount on freedom arms and 5% off JBA. Came in under $900 for all. Pretty pleased with the haul back. Quality seems great on the JBA arms.
Got my hands on a kit for front and rear just waiting on rear coil conversion to install them. But fronts weren't too terribly hard to put in and the ride is great for initial test drive. Will be doing the rears next weekend. Once these tires are shot will go a bit bigger and hopefully 17s