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Final Verdict: the gringletaube mod in conjunction with a 2 degree caster shim ended up being the magic bullet for my truck. Drives better now than it ever has! Like the post above says though YMMV.

Duplicate post, sorry!

After much trial and error (and wasted $$$:evil:) I also ended up "gringeltaubeing" my spring perches as well. I think I still prefer the way the steering felt with the NDTs, but maybe this is just the nature of the beast and I need to get used to it? Anyways, the wheel returns to center now and...

I only got the passengers side apart right now, but the U-Bolts on mine came apart very easily as well.

Not from O'Reilly, but this is what I bought yesterday at a local 4x4 shop:

Well I'm certainly not drilling in that iron. Don't even have the means to do so on the premises.

I don't see how its even possible to reinstall the OEM shims in an inverted fashion, at least not on this particular truck (I tried!). This one had alignment pins for the springs installed in a "staggered" formation, with the pin on the axle fitting into the offset hole, and the pin on the...

Can someone give me the torque value on the U-Bolts for when I go to put it all back together (yes, I'll admit to being too lazy to go rifling through the TMs to find it myself.:oops:)

MikeON's post above, as well as your thread on 'that other forum' convinced me that that is the right thing to do. Planning on working on it today.

More crazy caster, thanks to G177s Just got ten of 'em put on today. The steering in this truck was nice and tight with the 9.00x20 NDTs. Now it feels like it is all worn out and sloppy. The wheel turns back to center in a very slow and lazy fashion, that is IF you can even get it to do it at...