Ready Lift leveling kit failure

[davbrucas]

Shop installed the front leveling kit on my son’s truck 4 days ago. He was headed to go duck hunting and both of his front tires toed in. He’s 6hrs away from me so he’s just going to tow it back to the same shop and make them fix it.
Anybody has have this problem this fast?

 

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[davbrucas]

Looks like the tie rods broke.

 

[mocomajek]

Haven’t seen that yet on these. Curious to hear what happened.

 

[Cocoabean]

I installed my ReadyLift leveling kit myself about 15k miles ago and have had no issues. You do have to take everything apart to install the kit, and be sure to tighten everything back to spec. After seeing this, my gut says the installer didn't tighten everything to spec and that caused the issue. My overwhelming experience with shops are that they just use air-guns to tighten everything up, torque wrenches be damned.

 

[Dudeguyman]

I installed my ReadyLift leveling kit myself about 15k miles ago and have had no issues. You do have to take everything apart to install the kit, and be sure to tighten everything back to spec. After seeing this, my gut says the installer didn't tighten everything to spec and that caused the issue. My overwhelming experience with shops are that they just use air-guns to tighten everything up, torque wrenches be damned.

I double that - I never trust anyone to do anything correctly, I’m too old and have been disappointed too many times. I have 20K on mine but did mine myself and torqued everything. To have both tires toe in like that at the same time is very peculiar unless I’m understanding that incorrect

 

[wishywashy]

I can hardly imagine how this would happen but to hypothesize, maybe they didn't securely tighten either tie rod end? I haven't been under my AT4 that much but maybe they left the cotter pins out of the castle nuts and they magically worked themselves loose at the same rate? That would be a slow failure and you'd feel the steering get very sloppy before they popped out though.