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Originally Posted by 34fordy
Speaking of clocking, ---When the sector is in the middle and at the "sweet spot" should the pitman arm be true vertical?
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Just a 'WAG' ....(Wild-Assed Guess).... on my part, but I'd guess YES...
IF the spindle (and steering arm) are original. Here is some very interesting info (below) compliments of
"glennpm" from a previous post of his. Hope this helps. DD
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FROM GLENN:
"Here is a picture of both of the 32 Pitman arms with the "B" or truck one on the top. There is a one tooth difference between the two.
The rotation of the B would push a fixed length drag link further to the front of the car and deceases the desired 90° between the steering arm and the drag link.
If you you have a B as mentioned above, you can either remove the indexing teeth at each 90° or file those indexes to make 8 new teeth. Either way would allow you to place the pitman wherever you need to maintain the 90°. All else being correct, one tooth CCW.
This morning I had a thought. How much angular movement does 1 tooth give you?
There are 36 teeth (the 90° apart "keys" count for 2 teeth each) so 360/36 gives you 10 degrees at the Pitman arm. For a stock 1932 with 13 to 1 worm/sector shaft ratio, 1 tooth would be 13 X 10° = 130° steering wheel rotation!"
