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I'm having a big problem with my steering on my 79 F250 4x4. It steers a lot more to the left then it does to the right. When making a right hand turn I pretty much need both lanes in the raod to be clear. I have been trying to figure this out for a while now and can't seem to come up with anything. I have taken the pitman arm off and turned the steering wheel from all the way right to left and found it is 4 full turns. So then I turned the wheel 2 times to center the box. While the box is centered I put the front wheels straight and the pitman arm does not line up with the splines with out turning the tries, and that is making it so I can't turn very well to the right. I have put the box and tires to the left and right and tried to line the pitman arm up and i still need to turn the wheels some to get it lined up. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong? Or how I can fix this? Does anyone else have this same problem with it steering more to the left then to the right? Thanks for the help.
Jeff
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The steering box should have two stops for left and right. Do any of your tires rub?
Ingore the steering wheel.
If you can't center the pitarm arm, and have both front wheels straight while connecting to the pitman arm, I would suspect your steering box is no good, letting it wander farther than it's supposed to.
Do you have a spare box laying around?
Ingore the steering wheel.
If you can't center the pitarm arm, and have both front wheels straight while connecting to the pitman arm, I would suspect your steering box is no good, letting it wander farther than it's supposed to.
Do you have a spare box laying around?
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>The steering box should have two stops for left and right.
>Do any of your tires rub?
>
>Ingore the steering wheel.
>
>If you can't center the pitarm arm, and have both front
>wheels straight while connecting to the pitman arm, I would
>suspect your steering box is no good, letting it wander
>farther than it's supposed to.
>
>Do you have a spare box laying around?
None of my tires rub. The box I have in the truck is a re-man thats about 3 years old with only 6,000 miles on it. Yeah actually I do have a spare box for that truck that I am planning on doing the highboy steering swap with it at some point. When you say the pitman arm should be straight when the wherels are straight, do you mean parallel to the axel?
Thanks,
Jeff
>Do any of your tires rub?
>
>Ingore the steering wheel.
>
>If you can't center the pitarm arm, and have both front
>wheels straight while connecting to the pitman arm, I would
>suspect your steering box is no good, letting it wander
>farther than it's supposed to.
>
>Do you have a spare box laying around?
None of my tires rub. The box I have in the truck is a re-man thats about 3 years old with only 6,000 miles on it. Yeah actually I do have a spare box for that truck that I am planning on doing the highboy steering swap with it at some point. When you say the pitman arm should be straight when the wherels are straight, do you mean parallel to the axel?
Thanks,
Jeff
