[Steven Stocki]

Did something stupid and put the pitman arm on the wrong direction per the picture below.

Do I have to take it off again and change the direction or can I make up for it by adjusting the "drag link" in the 2nd picture ?

Thank you

 

[klhansen]

I thought all pitman arms and steering sector shafts had a blind spline to prevent mistakes like that. :shrug03:

I don't think you'd have enough adjustment in the drag link to safely make up for the difference. If you don't have enough threads engaged in the adjustment sleeve, it might let go and you'd loose all steering.

I would remove the pitman arm and redo it.

 

[yan7gin]

X2 remove and do it the right way. Also to make sure that you didn't damage anything because as KL said, i Also though that you should have a notch bigger than the rest to align everything the right way


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[RT]

There is an alignment spline but enough force and I suppose you could get it on wrong.


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[rock_doctor]

Not to pile on but it is also likely you damaged either the pitman arm or the output shaft from the steering gear. Besure to confirm that the splines on both are still perfect.