Thanks C9, I'll check out the Vega adjustment. To me the column and the Speedway universals seem rigid and I can feel the slack with my fingers on the rigid column extension to the box. Gee I hope the Speedway universals are tight because I don't want to do all that cross pinning again. At the steering wheel this amounts to about 1" of play so hopefully adjustment on the box can fix this. On the Pitman arm I think it will be worth buying the larger socket and putting a pipe on the ratchet handle until I can see a few threads past the nut. So far I have stopped where the nut is just fully on but I like to see some threads! In the past I have been able to get a Pitman arm off by placing a 2"x4" beam directly above the arm and hitting it down with a hammer; the wood takes the damage from the hammer. Maybe it is worth getting a 1/2" drive handle for the large sockets; I ruined a previous 3/8" drive ratchet by putting a 6' pipe on the handle to tighten the single flywheel nut on a VW engine (after the flywheel actually fell off as incompletely tightened by the previous owner, it was speced at over 200 ft. lb.). Actually my present 3/8" drive was rebuilt for free by a Sears guy under the lifetime Craftsman warranty so I do have the same handlle with rebuilt guts. With hindsight I ought to get a 1/2" drive breaker bar and the correct socket and tighten till I see some threads past the nut! I am just hinking out loud but I should do the right thing here. My (Craftsman) torque wrench is 3/8" drive and I don't want to break the torque wrench.

Thanks,
Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder