Pittman arm install.
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From: Blanco County, TX
Pittman arm install.
I'm putting in a Borgeson steering gear and I can push the pittman arm on the spline about 1/4 or the way and I got it about 1/2 way with the nut, but needed a breaker bar to do so. I used an anti sieze compound on the spline. I probably could have gone a bit further, but I figured I better take it off and have a look before tearing anything up.
I found a small ridge of metal on the pittman arm spline.
I was evenly distributed so I'm sure it was going on straight. The splines on the gearbox seem fine. So I tried again with remanufactured pittman arm I had laying around and got the exact same thing. So I gently filed off the metal ( from the remanufactured p-arm) with a thread file and tried again and got it to go about 5/8th of the way. I pulled it off and got another ridge of metal. It come's off without a ton of effort.
I can do this few more times and probably get it all the way on, but hand filing the splines seems like a bad idea. I can use an impact wrench
(hopefully I won't explode my $16 1 5/16 socket which is not rated for an impact wrench).
Is this typical? It's been so long since I've changes a pittman arm I can remember how much trouble I had. But the metal ridge can't be good.
Suggestion?
I found a small ridge of metal on the pittman arm spline.
I was evenly distributed so I'm sure it was going on straight. The splines on the gearbox seem fine. So I tried again with remanufactured pittman arm I had laying around and got the exact same thing. So I gently filed off the metal ( from the remanufactured p-arm) with a thread file and tried again and got it to go about 5/8th of the way. I pulled it off and got another ridge of metal. It come's off without a ton of effort. I can do this few more times and probably get it all the way on, but hand filing the splines seems like a bad idea. I can use an impact wrench
(hopefully I won't explode my $16 1 5/16 socket which is not rated for an impact wrench). Is this typical? It's been so long since I've changes a pittman arm I can remember how much trouble I had. But the metal ridge can't be good.
Suggestion?
