So this is the first thing that happened to me today...

Looks like the cotter pin was sheared off and the nut came off the drag link. So in the process it bent the rod for the ram as well...guess it's time to look into doing the "Saginaw steering conversion"

And i'm going to look into doing the front end ball joints, drag link and tie rods too.

 

I don't think that end is supposed to be under the tire jk. I hear the Saginaw is the way to go

 

I hear they steer better with the drag link under the tire. had to put the theory to the test.

And year, I'm looking through threads regarding the saginaw swap but can't seem to find the "how-to". I'm pretty sure I ran accross it once before when I really didn't need it.