Truck wandering after ball joint replacement and alignment

jgg123

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Morning folks

2002 F350 7.3L 135k miles

Replaced ball joints on both sides of the truck and had the wheels aligned after. Also had replaced a worn out drag link (all three pieces)

Now the truck wanders/overcorrects at highway speeds. No play in steering box. The guy that put them in used ACDelco parts. Do you think this could be an installation issue? I've only put 200 or so miles on, is this something that might go away with time?

I've seen piles of threads with this issue but no one ever updates. Anyone experience something like this?
 

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Seen quite a few times where people overtorque the ball joints and it memory steers...

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Cheaper BJs always cause issues, at least the few times I’ve used them/friends. But they could’ve very well over torqued them.


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Cheaper BJs always cause issues, at least the few times I’ve used them/friends. But they could’ve very well over torqued them.


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Just had this done today on my truck.. The balljoint was way over tightened
 

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