Beating a Dead Horse
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Beating a Dead Horse
As the title suggests, I know this subject has been beat to death, but I'm willing to take my lumps for bringing it up again.
Pulled front suspension from a 75 F250 earlier today. Doing the disc brake swap. Got everything from the I beams to the radius arms and the brake booster, mc and prop valve. Have compared new with the old and everything seems straight forward. Except....
Since I am not swapping power steering, my issue is how to get everything mated up to the steering gear. I've read that grinding the spindle arm is possible and thus maintaining the 65's linkage, however, that doesn't seem possible. I've also read that if using the linkage from the '75, the pitman arm won't mate with the steering gear. Is there a pitman arm that will work for this? Am I overlooking something else?
Tony
Pulled front suspension from a 75 F250 earlier today. Doing the disc brake swap. Got everything from the I beams to the radius arms and the brake booster, mc and prop valve. Have compared new with the old and everything seems straight forward. Except....
Since I am not swapping power steering, my issue is how to get everything mated up to the steering gear. I've read that grinding the spindle arm is possible and thus maintaining the 65's linkage, however, that doesn't seem possible. I've also read that if using the linkage from the '75, the pitman arm won't mate with the steering gear. Is there a pitman arm that will work for this? Am I overlooking something else?
Tony
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