I finally had some time to do some needed maintenance on the Rez. The past two years I've been so busy with other things that I haven't used the truck for anything besides daily driving and towing. And I haven't done any maintenance besides the normal oil changes. The front needed some love to tighten everything up again and make the truck safe for the trails.
The uniballs on my Camburg UCA's were in desperate need of replacement. They are recommended to be replaced at 15k miles, and I'm well over twice that. The balls themselves were not making noise, but were visibly corroded and likely had some play in them. I ordered new balls from Camburg and a uniball tool from Total Chaos. The TC tool was amazing. I highly recommend that anyone running uniballs get one of the tools. Pricey but worth every penny. It makes it so the uniballs can be changed while the UCA is on the truck. It makes the job take just minutes.
I found that some pretty heavy duty snap ring pliers are needed for the snap rings on the Camburg arms. I tried the generic ones and all they did was bend. I spent $50 on a nice set of pliers and that made all the difference.
The outer tie rods were replaced probably 40k miles ago. No visible play or signs of failure, but they have been through a lot so I wanted to start fresh. I was not sure when the inner tie rods were last replaced. So new inner and outer tie rods were done. Not OEM, but I had good success with the ones that were on there already, which were all Moog parts. The inner tie rods that were on there were both fairly loose....not terrible, but definitely no longer stiff. The outer tie rods had no resistance on the bolt end. So I'm glad I replaced all that.
I cleaned up the surface corrosion on the coilovers and coated with some spray for protection. I'm going to pick up some Mavcoat and hit all the suspension components with that to keep them somewhat fresh.
Truck is getting a fresh alignment in two days. Next on my list is replace outer boots on front CV axles, replace fluid in front diff and transfer case, and transmission drain and fill. At that point I should be ready for 4x4 trails when they open June 15th.