I have a pitman arm on a parts truck that is lifted, but I'm not sure if this is a drop pitman arm or the stock one.

Does anyone have a picture or at least a good description of one or the other? Is the stock one pretty flat?

 

the stock one drops 1" at the most... that is on my 2wd 77,78, &79 f-100's

 

I should have mentioned I'm working with 4x4 here. I think the pitman arms are different on them vs. the 2wd one.

Anyone with some info or a picture of a 4x4 78/79 F150 pitman arm?

 

I've got some photos of mine but it's an F250 so is probably different. Let me know if you want some shots.

 

I think the 250 is different as well. Thanks though.

Anyone else?

 

Can you use a drop pitman arm on a stock truck? Because I am doing a steering conversion and have not been able to find a stock 78/79 pitman arm. I have looked in the junkyards but no luck.

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I just replaced my stock pitman arm on saturday. if you lay the pitman arm down on the ground it's pretty much flat. When I bought the 3 inch drop arm the guy roughly measured it from the tie rod hole vertically up.

hope that helps, this is was on my 78 f150.

-Randy

 

So your new pitman arm, if looking at it horizontally like it's mounted, is close to 3 inches high?

Thanks. That's what I needed to know.

 

3 inches high or 3 inch drop, depending on how you look at it.

I know there is also questions about whether you need a drop arm or not with a lift under 4 inches. I have no expertise in this field but from my experience running a 4 inch lift without a drop arm for roughly 3 years, the splines on the pitman arm wore out and created slop in the turning.

Another strange thing that may or may not be related, the castle nut on the other end of the pitman arm holding on the tierod was completely stripped out. It was on by a single thread :-)

Randy

 

I definitely want a drop-pitman even with only my 4 inch lift. The reason I'm asking these questions though is because I purchased this parts truck and was told it had a drop-pitman but when I got to look at it, it appeared to have the stock pitman.

I just wanted to be sure what I was looking at was a stock one (since I had nothing else to compare it to.