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Nov 1, 2004 | 07:10 PM

ivanribic

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Pitman arm

Does anyone know what the differences are in pitman arms for the 78 era F150's vs. the F250's? I may need a drop pitman arm to make my crossover steering work. Found a good deal on a pitman arm for an F150 and Skyjacker shows different models for each but I curious if the shaft and splines are the same.

Nov 1, 2004 | 07:58 PM

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I thought you were going to make yours out of rebar?

Nov 1, 2004 | 08:05 PM

ivanribic

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No you jackass. I told you I'm bending the rebar so I can use it to replace my leaf springs . . . I'll have much better articulation this way.

You saw the suggestion in Pirate about just tapping the DOM tube instead of a bung? Any ideas on where I'd find a tap that size? Would be a cool idea but I'm just not sure where to look.

Nov 1, 2004 | 08:15 PM

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Yea, I saw that suggestion. In fact, it was either my tie rod or my draglink I did that way. Don't recall, but I do remember I used bungs on one and just tapped the other. Anyways, I think you'd have to go to snap-on or somebody like that. Or, just take your stock down to a local machine shop and have them do it...I'm sure they'd only charge a nominal fee. Then again, one can never have too many tools...

Nov 2, 2004 | 06:19 AM

wyldstallyn73

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Pitman arm for 150's poinst forward while arm for 250's points to the side. I used an F250 box years ago for a custom application that required a pitman arm to point rearward, but I don't remember what arm I used, so there must be something available.

Nov 2, 2004 | 07:35 AM

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Hey Ivan, I'm pretty sure the splines on the 150 & 250 boxes are the same, I just installed one on my 150 box in the 49' and it looks just like the 250 one on the supercab, both have the indexing splines and tapered sector shaft, unfortunatly I've never had them both off at the same time to compair diameter of the shaft,

Nov 2, 2004 | 08:31 AM

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I had a 4" pitman arm for the 79 Bronco steering box I used on my 74 F100 for a while. My dad put it on his '76 3/4 ton 2wd box when he converted his '74 Highboy to crossover....... had to file out the indexing splines though.

I know the older ones won't fit on the newer '95's. I tried to put my '79 pitman on my '95 one ton. Amazingly, the diameter and spline count were the same at the top of the pitman arm (side that goes on first), but the earlier ones are tapered....my '95s sector shaft was the same diameter over it's entire length.

Cody

BTW, rebar makes good link material for 4-link setups and track-bars. HA HA

Last edited by cleatus12r; Nov 2, 2004 at 08:33 AM.