And Pitman arm puller...
Had to hit the brakes hard the other day, van went abruptly right.
Good thing I was in the Right lane.
Not the caliper, I can put on normal brakes, hands off the wheel, stops straight.
Had the wife move the wheel back & forth while I examined the tie rod and pitman arm joints. The pitman arm has more play in it than it should, but the Right tie rod socket is really loose.
I don’t want to install crappy 3rd world made steering parts, brand names like TRW and MOOG no longer seem to mean quality. So I’m going to the local Ford truck parts place and paying the ransom money for what I hope are better quality parts. The steering parts are original, 280k miles, can’t complain about that.
Going to count turns and try to get the new parts on w/o messing up the alignment too much, just need the wheels to be straight enough to drive to the alignment place, 70 miles from here.
Had to hit the brakes hard the other day, van went abruptly right.
Good thing I was in the Right lane.
Not the caliper, I can put on normal brakes, hands off the wheel, stops straight.
Had the wife move the wheel back & forth while I examined the tie rod and pitman arm joints. The pitman arm has more play in it than it should, but the Right tie rod socket is really loose.
I don’t want to install crappy 3rd world made steering parts, brand names like TRW and MOOG no longer seem to mean quality. So I’m going to the local Ford truck parts place and paying the ransom money for what I hope are better quality parts. The steering parts are original, 280k miles, can’t complain about that.
Going to count turns and try to get the new parts on w/o messing up the alignment too much, just need the wheels to be straight enough to drive to the alignment place, 70 miles from here.