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Old 08-18-2011, 02:33 PM   #8
Keith True
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Default Re: Shortend Pitman Arm

I've put a few of these on,both for myself and for other people.It makes a difference.I'm not getting the radius thing,if the spindles hit the stops before,and hits them after the new arm,how does the radius change? In armchair theory the radius would decrease,but in real life the spindles hit the stops before the box runs out of travel.Now,this is on a two tooth box,I've never done one on a seven tooth,that might be different.It also does not repair bad steering arm balls,bad kingpins,worn out steering box,etc.I talked to one guy who said it was a waste of money.It made no difference to him.I asked how his front end was.He said tight.I asked if he had looked at the steering balls.No,but he shook them.Same with the kingpins.He said that with the front end jacked up it still took two hands to steer.He doesn't want to fix it,so therefore it can't be bad.Now he bitches about the shortened pitman arm because it wasn't the magic bullet.I did a couple of things to an old fellows truck to make it easier for him to drive.Between the cast drums,shortened pitman arm,and Teds floaters he drove the truck until a week or so before he died.He was too sick and weak to drive it as it was.
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