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John I bought my suspension from Jim Weimar also and have a question. I don’t remember the washers on the ball joints/a-arms form the last truck years ago . Can you or others tell me if I have the washers in the correct position I think I do since the taper needs to fit tight.
I am putting the truck back together for the final time I hope. Oh! By the way your truck looks nice going down the drive.
John I bought my suspension from Jim Weimar also and have a question. I don’t remember the washers on the ball joints/a-arms form the last truck years ago . Can you or others tell me if I have the washers in the correct position I think I do since the taper needs to fit tight.
I am putting the truck back together for the final time I hope. Oh! By the way your truck looks nice going down the drive.
You have to be able to put a cotter pin through the castle nut so you don't loose the nut. It don't look like that is going happen in those pictures..
John I don't have anything tightened up yet I just put them together for the photo and to see if that is correct for the placement of the washers. Once I get them tight I will have the cotter hole showing. So is that the correct placement for the them.
Thanks
Warning: Useless reply / comment.(but might help somebody, someday, maybe)
Below is why I am reading this post;
I was doing final assembly of the steering shaft for the rack and pinon with one double u joint and one single that uses a support bearing,
The steering shaft fits lose inside the support bearing (.007, that is a engineered thing I think) but it was not tight enough to turn the bearing, the shaft just spun inside the bearing.
So I tighten everything down and used locktite bearing mount that worked well, but after curing overnight I almost could not turn the steering wheel. Not sure if it was the steering column, the rack, or the bearing alignment causing the problem?
Upon disassembly I had, because of the location, inadvertently got some locktite into the support bearing. Plan "B" is a bearing with a set screw locking collar instead of the chemical.
Pilot error by a old fool (again).
