Unbolted 1st steering correction for the new crossover. 4x steering pitman arm seems to have sheared a bit. Anyone seen this before??? 
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Crossover ???
- Thread starter Heavyd462
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I haven't found problems with pitman arms, unless they were loose beforehand.
But I can't see much of a problem with the splines in the picture, but that could be due to enlarging it on my phone.
But I can't see much of a problem with the splines in the picture, but that could be due to enlarging it on my phone.
I've had 2 strip. When hitting an unmovable object. The shaft usually takes a big gouge out of the bolt also. This is with cantaleever crossover and 35" tires. I cut the factory arm made my own for direction correction. Did not know about the 2wd box option at the time.
This was still on the road. Minor noise I thought was leaf spring bushings.
The fix...hopefully.
Ahh! I see it in the other pic!
I would be glad to have that part off of the truck!
I would be glad to have that part off of the truck!
About scat my pants when I seen this.
I've had a skyjacker 2" drop pitman arm loose the splines like that. It was on a truck that was 100% unabused and street driven. Thought it was odd.
Looks like it was hammered in to position.
I'm going to guess it was not tight and the splines galled from rubbing back and forth.
Side tidbit.. when i went to put my pitman arm nut.. i picked up the wrong nut.. d60 front pinion nut. Threads were same and nut is double thickness so i kept it. Maybe help you not loosen in future?
Odd here too. Installed then retorqued after 100 miles as all other lift items were. 5 years and 15k+ miles ago and now upgrading and find this...odd to say the least.
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I accept all possibilities, but don't understand the partial spline stripping and not all splines. The bolt required a breaker bar to loosen?
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Thanks, will look into this as long as strength is the same.
