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02-23-2011, 04:41 PM
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Originally Posted by N20jeep
Yes,
Where does the pitman arm point when the steering wheel is centered?
Good question. I'll have to check tomorrow sometime and see.
02-23-2011, 04:52 PM
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Originally Posted by huntingman2706217
Probly over done it and got the dang steering wheel needing to do a 360 lol... it will adjust that much!
02-24-2011, 12:12 AM
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Originally Posted by hudfabxj
you cannot do this ^^^^. the pitman arm is keyed with a bigger spline, and you could only turn it 180 degrees. plus this would not be the right way to do it even if you could get it to work.
go pay to have an alignment done......ur gonna run into other issues down the road if you dont...even if your rig is driving straight now.
i use a tape measure and an angle finder to do my alignments, but im Hunter Alignment certified and have been building jeeps for 13 years.
02-24-2011, 06:54 AM
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i actually just did a search, just to prove my statement, and found that there is 4 of these bigger splines on the pitman arm and steering box. they are called "indexing splines". internet tells lies sometimes, so i will go out and check to be sure.(but i know they have at least one.)
02-24-2011, 02:56 PM
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This is what my pitman arm looked like with the steering wheel straight.
The second one is how the wheel looked with the wheels straight.
Adjusted the drag link the opposite way then before and it fixed the upside down steering wheel! Imagine that. Doing something right fixed the problem!
The second one is how the wheel looked with the wheels straight.
Adjusted the drag link the opposite way then before and it fixed the upside down steering wheel! Imagine that. Doing something right fixed the problem!
we all have done something worse........
02-24-2011, 06:27 PM
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when i first got my jeep my adjustment clamp was loose... slowly my steering wheel kept going more and more one way over a few months... i thought the thing was slipping teeth in the gearbox after i pulled it out of a bud hole sideways and the steering wheel was locked so thats what i thought happened... after along time of only being able to turn one way REAL well and almost non the other way it finally got so bad i couldnt drive it... signed on to this forum and bam... someone told me to check it out... crawled under there and grabbed it... spun it by hand about 1 turn and it fell off... yep... fell off... like it came all the way out... lol... if i had driven it maybe a few more miles i would have lost all my steering and crashed... never did i think it was ready to come apart...
could have been alot worse for ya is all im sayin lol...
could have been alot worse for ya is all im sayin lol...
02-25-2011, 12:58 AM
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Originally Posted by hudfabxj
thats funny....i just replaced my steering box last weekend, and reamed the taper in my pitman arm to fit my new one ton tie rod ends.....and it is def keyed with a bigger spline. so has every other cherokee i have ever worked on.
i actually just did a search, just to prove my statement, and found that there is 4 of these bigger splines on the pitman arm and steering box. they are called "indexing splines". internet tells lies sometimes, so i will go out and check to be sure.(but i know they have at least one.)
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Disconnect TRE at pitman arm, disconnect battery, remove screws from back of steering wheel, remove plug for airbag/horn. Remove large nut holding wheel in place, Use puller to remove wheel, and center it. Reinstall it, and voila! Its straight
02-25-2011, 03:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Metmknice
Disconnect TRE at pitman arm, disconnect battery, remove screws from back of steering wheel, remove plug for airbag/horn. Remove large nut holding wheel in place, Use puller to remove wheel, and center it. Reinstall it, and voila! Its straight
02-25-2011, 04:51 AM
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Lol... ya I had to pick on ya a bit there lol... sometimes the phone app screws with me cause sometimes it'll go to the first page first and others it'll go to the last page... so ill trade the first page thinking that's it... but there's like 5 pages after that lol... I pay attention to it now... got tired of editing posts... lol
And I just realized I didn't put a lol or haha or anything after that post so sorry if it looked like I was being a terd... I read it as me being a terd so didn't want you to think that lol... expressions don't exist on the internet lol...
And I just realized I didn't put a lol or haha or anything after that post so sorry if it looked like I was being a terd... I read it as me being a terd so didn't want you to think that lol... expressions don't exist on the internet lol...
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