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2013+ steering gearbox in older trucks
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[QUOTE="Charles, post: 1521237, member: 103"] That's not the reason, drilling and tapping the knuckle "stop" for an adjustment bolt would be easy. Easier still would be reaming the 02 knuckles to accept the 05 tie rod. The problem would be the leafspring physically occupying the point in space where the drag link comes down. The reason the draglink connects directly to the top of the knuckle on a radius arm truck but not a leafspring truck is that the front quarter elipse of the spring arch occupies the space where the drag link would go. Hence why a leafsprung superduty has a place a few inches back, nearly under the leafspring perch where the draglink attaches. Now I've considered bending the 05 draglink to make it clear, but in my experience non-straight steering links tend to drive like crap and seem to "roll" around instead of just push-pull. And it's possible that the draglink might miss, but if it did, I can't imagine that it would be by much, and I'd be worried that the spring and link would eventually find one another and compromise a very serious connection. I've had a drag link rod end shear off at the pitman arm on my reg cab going about 60mph down the road in a turn.... Luckily that truck didn't have ABS so I was able to stab down on the pedal hard enough to lock the tires without them pulling one way or the other and luckily nobody was coming the other direction as I slid for a loooooong way with the right side on pavement and left side on grass. The extra grip from the pavement helped the truck make the turn anyway. [/QUOTE]
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