I have a quick question as I am receiving tire rubbing on my driver side with the 285 REVOs. Several months ago I had hid a bump on a dirt road, pretty hard, on the driver side of my truck. Didn't knock out the alignment and the truck drove fine.

Several months later, began getting a ping noise on the driver side when hitting slight bumps in the road and in turns mostly. It is now getting worse.

I changed to the 285 REVOs:ro) after getting 55K miles out of the original 245 Bridgestone stock tires. Every now and then I get a rub out the driver side. It appears that at certain times, the tire on the driver side will be off center.

I noticed, while greasing my zerks, that the lower ball joint, on the driver side, was spitting grease out of the center of the rubber, indicating a tear in the rubber. That may as well be my pinging noise.

My question is: Does anyone know if that could cause my tire to shift from time to time causing the rubbing? Or should I just replace the whole lower control arm?

If it was shifting a lot it might be that your ball joint is bad. Kinda sounds that way since you say it looks off center. Jack it up and grab the tire and try to tilt it in and out. If it bounces around a lot you need to replace that lower ball joint. Maybe top one too. I would check both sides, top and bottom. If this is the case get it done fast, I have seen guys snap them off when they get bad. Usually lack of grease causing excessive wear was the problem. I saw one where the lower ball joint snapped, the tire went up into the wheelwell. The knuckle snapped off, the lower a arm fell down and got caught and bent back. Not good at all. He was just driving along on a dirt road.

Thanks for the tip. I will check it out tomorrow or Monday. I just hope that I haven't bent the lower control arm from the bump.
Do you get any rubbing from your 285s?

They never rubbed on the plastic but when I had a lot of mud built up in the wheelwell they rubbed on the mud on the back of the wheelwell a little when turning. Even though they seemed to fit I ziptied the front plastic back a bit because it looks like the reservoir for the window washer fluid pushes it out a little and I didn't want it to catch it sometime when I flexed hard.

Well, replacing the ball joint stopped the rubbing pretty much. i did notice that the emergency brake cable was pushing the inner fender well forward. I tied it back and everyhting is ok.

Problem is, that someone forgot to route the emergency brake cables, on these trucks, through the 2 holes, on the frame, for the cable. Sounds like a factory issue as my cousin's 05 is the same way.