Thread: Tie rods

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Jerry,

Good ideas. I'm kind of short on tools these days, so I didn't want to try to bend the steering arms. The Pitman arm I have is double tapered, but flipping to the top side was too much. It ran the tie rod right into the harmonic balancer. See below for the fix I figured out. BTW, it's 5 Deg. caster.

Rich, That won't work. However, after looking it over more closely, I have determined that *He Who Shall Not Be Named* used the wrong Pitman arm on the steering box. He used a 1" bent-up arm with the tie rod end on the bottom. That caused the tie rod to slope downwards almost 3" from the steering arm to the Pitman arm. I'm switching to a straight Pitman arm with the tie rod end on the top. That makes the drag link parallel to the tie rod.