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2013+ steering gearbox in older trucks
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[QUOTE="13fist, post: 1523984, member: 31010"] Came across this thread quite some time ago when googling for steering gear upgrades and couldn't remember what forum it was on. Finally found it. I'm doing this to my '01 Ex. What I have done is go with a used gear I found for less than core charge so I could do a mock up, source fittings etc., and make sure it was going to work before committing to it. An added bonus was the used gear came with the lower part of the input shaft, providing me with the input coupler & rag joint to swap over as well. [ATTACH=full]176865[/ATTACH] Used M18-1.5 -6 jic adapter for input, M16-1.5 -6 jic for the outlet, same on the hydroboost. Fabbed the line from the hydro boost to the gear. M16-2x130mm bolts from bolt depot to mount the gear. The pitman arm is where I ran into a snag. I took it for granted that certain geometries would be close enough that I could mod a 2016 pitman arm to work with the existing drag link. For that I used a taper repair bushing from Sky offroad. That part worked great. What I didn't catch during the initial mock up was the pitman arm angle. Used a rough country drop pitman arm seen in the pic, and that's when I started to go uh-oh. It hits the head of the track bar bolt turning left, just above the lower bend in the arm. That could also be the BDS drop bracket, but I haven't found my stock track bar bracket to compare. Even with the slightly wider left turns, it handles so much better. A few options I'm mulling over to solve the pitman arm. [/QUOTE]
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