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Steering center link ball joint issue

Hi, I'm new to this site. I have a 79 3/4 ton pickup with a supposed 4 inch lift. The previous owner swears up and down its a skyjacker. Anyways, I installed a drop pitman arm on it because it still had the original pitman arm, so it was wiping out the ball joint in between the steering box and center link.. Im trying to find ball joints for the center link and am having no luck mainly because my center link is not stock, evidently. It has a bend in it to accommodate for the suspension lift. The new (stock) center link from the parts store is straight so it won't work. I need to find ball joints for the aftermarket mystery center link with the bend in it. I looked on skyjackers web site but had no luck. The part stores only seem to have the straight style. Does anyone else have the bent center link? If so where do you find ball joints?? The ball joints are the threaded kind instead of the press in kind. They have a stud that screws into the center link, not the other way around.


The weird bent center link and ball joint that i need for it



The stock oem center link that won't work because it puts the ball joints at too much of an angle
 
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