High Steer arms
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High Steer arms
I'm posting for a buddy that is in need of a high steer arm. We leaf sprung a 79 D60 into a 78 half ton. He kinda counts on me to tell him what to buy but I have no idea, never delt with high steer stuff yet. I have read you cant cheap out on them and you need to use good fasteners. That's about all I know. What do you all with experience recommend? His goal is to keep it in the 200 dollar price range.
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Do you need a "crossover steering" arm for the passenger side or just the high steer arm on driver side or both. I get mine from Northwestfab
NorthWest FabWorks - Products - Steering - Dana 60 Steering Arms
Very best in quality. I've been to there shop just a couple hours north of me and they had a guy hand filing them from any imperfections after they were cut.
NorthWest FabWorks - Products - Steering - Dana 60 Steering Arms
Very best in quality. I've been to there shop just a couple hours north of me and they had a guy hand filing them from any imperfections after they were cut.
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So we got a high steer arm, put it on today. Kinda have a clearence issue with the heim joint at the pitman arm and the leaf spring. Deffinetly gonna make contact. This trucks got 4 inch springs. The only thing I can really think of is to chop the misaignment spacers down so it doesn't hang so low and use some heat to bend the pitman arm upwords. I think we can gain about an inch and a half of clearence this way and should be enough, if not it'll be plenty so that we can put a bump stop in. Any one got any better ideas for this issue?
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Kris what's your steering look like? I looked at your write up but no pics anymore. I think a TRE would have givin better clearence but I had extra dom and joints so its what we used.
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Basically I see no possible way for a 77.5-79 F250 to run both crossover and highsteer regardless of the amount of lift. The tie rod intersects with the drag link at a real screwed up angle so they'd hit each other even if you had 12-15" lift.
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