Found the holy grail of pitman arms

[owenst7]

Today I pulled not one, but two E-series van pitman arms. I've seen people discuss the part numbers and dimensions of it here and on Pirate, but I've never seen anything conclusive. Hope this clears that up and maybe becomes easy to find on Google.

The vans are easy to spot:

1) They were the first Ford vans with a real "hood" (not the flat-faced, VW-looking ones).

2) They were the last Ford vans to have round headlights. Starting in '80 they had square headlights.

It is 1.75" drop. I checked with a dial caliper.

The part number is D5UA-3590-CA. Maybe these can be ordered from Ford with an actual part number. That would be a lot better than paying $70 for the Superlift 1104 arm that really isn't a great option. Someone else do this though, as I have two now .

The indexes should be at 12, 3, 6, and 9 o'clock. If you someone can't figure out the body style and pull the wrong arm, you'll be able to tell by those indexes. I've read similar arms from a different year van are the same, but the indexes are off by 45*.

They're too small for a GM TRE. Obviously also too small for a GM DLE. There is plenty of meat there to ream them, and it's pretty close as it is. You'd only be removing about .03" I believe.

I found it easiest to get the pitman arm retaining nut off with the box bolted to the frame. It's a huge nut (like ~1 3/8"), so I had to make a trip back home to get a big crescent, keep that in mind if you're headed to a junkyard. I was using a cheap Harbor Freight puller that I ground out a bit (not wide enough). I preloaded the arm as much as I dared to do to a Chinese tool. I had the box on the ground now, so a couple good whacks near the splines with a sledge sent it shooting away.

I'd really recommend using anti-seize on your own stuff so you don't have to get a sledge out to work on it on the trail. I use anti-seize on everything though.

 

[USSkoval]

So since I'm too lazy to search, would this be useful for crossover or the stock push-pull?

BTW, I know what style vans you're talking about.

 

[CK5]

"I have to make a bunch of posts first. Seems kinda dumb but oh well."
Umm, not if you had the pleasure of viewing the gay porn that spammers like to post up on there one and only post. Sorry but rules are in place due to spammers.

 

[82355]

Do you frown upon a legit member making several meaningless random posts in order to post up pictures than?

Martin

 

[owenst7]

"I have to make a bunch of posts first. Seems kinda dumb but oh well."
Umm, not if you had the pleasure of viewing the gay porn that spammers like to post up on there one and only post. Sorry but rules are in place due to spammers.

There's other ways around that. We don't have any issues on the boards I use back home or the ones I use down in Reno. I've had an account here for a long time, but without the ability to post pictures I really haven't been able to post anything useful or of any reference. I haven't felt the need to ask questions about how big of tires I can fit with a 4" Rancho lift or if I should run blocks under my front springs.

Really beside the point. I would have liked to be able to include pictures of the pitman arms and the vans they come in, since that seems like it could be really useful information to people switching to crossover. If someone wants to include them for me that would be great, I'd really just like to see this info. easily obtainable for others. They're easy to find in my photobucket account. I use the same username as here and it's in an album titled "1976 K5". I would just post a link, but I can't do that either . Wikipedia would be a good choice for a picture of a 75-79 E-series van too.

Maybe I was wrong.

 

[thatK30guy]

Shell out $25 and become a member. Problem solved.

 

[owenst7]

Shell out $25 and become a member. Problem solved.

I'm supporting myself through college, trying to build a truck, and maintaining a daily driver. $25 is more than a weeks worth of groceries for me. I feel a spare pitman arm is more necessary to me than spending money on forums so that I can post information for others. I'm already full member on the Alaska board which I use primarily to get the information I need. Like I said, I'd just like to see this info. readily available to others.

This is getting off-topic, although it is helping me get to 15 posts. There are several tutorials I'd like to post on transmission modification and some suspension trigonometry.

 

[thatK30guy]

Well, lets make conversation until you reach the 15.

How 'bout those Lakers?

 

[owenst7]

Well, lets make conversation until you reach the 15.

How 'bout those Lakers?

Haha, my roommate is pretty into them. They play baseball right?

I'm a big college football fan in the sense that UNR games are free for students and a hell of a lot of fun to spend an afternoon at. Although I did skip the game today and spend the afternoon punching out rivets. Really wasn't a fun choice, more of a "had to do work" choice.

I traded my old half-tons plus a set of flat-tops for a 27 spline np205. Pretty sweet considering I don't want to buy a th400 this year.

Does anyone have any experience running a doubler behind a 700r4? That's the tranny I'd really like to build for my project but I've read there isn't really any support for it in the sense of t-case doublers. Kinda makes me want to build my own, but for the prices out there, I don't think it's worth doing yourself in most cases.

 

[dremu]

Does anyone have any experience running a doubler behind a 700r4? That's the tranny I'd really like to build for my project but I've read there isn't really any support for it in the sense of t-case doublers. Kinda makes me want to build my own, but for the prices out there, I don't think it's worth doing yourself in most cases.

Eh? Folks here do it all the time.

You just gotta find/make a range box and adapter to fit your tranny. I know it can be done with the '203, a local guy has that setup.

-- A

 

[owenst7]

Eh? Folks here do it all the time.

You just gotta find/make a range box and adapter to fit your tranny. I know it can be done with the '203, a local guy has that setup.

-- A

Guess I spent too much energy reading about using a 241 gearset. Well that makes me happy. I'd rather build a 700 to handle a big block than lose the gearing to a th400. I can find the 700 cores really easy in junkyards here too. I have 2 203s in the bed of the driveway-queen right now. I'll hafta do some more research when I start rebuilding the 205 I suppose.

 

[owenst7]

By the way, you've seen Badger, badger, badger...but have you seen Shut up woman get on my horse?

 

[tRustyK5]

Do you frown upon a legit member making several meaningless random posts in order to post up pictures than?

Martin

Nope, because 99.9% of the problem spam we were fighting was first and only post after registering. 15 ain't so bad...think of it as enough time to interact a little. A CK5 initiation if you will.

Trust me, we tried many different tactics with little to no success...until the 15 post thing was put in place. We literally had every moderator we have trying to keep the spammers from ruining the place. It's a big site, and for whatever reason we ended up in the crosshairs of the spam freaks out there. There were days where I'd delete threads and ban 30 or more spammers...and I wasn't working alone. You couldn't even narrow it down to newly registered, because quite often they'd register 30 or more names then wait for weeks to use them to post up hardcore porn pics with their first post.

Anyways, go post up something meaningless in feedback to hit 15 real quick if you want.

Rene

 

[Randy92782]

I've managed to post 20-25 random useless posts here a day at one time. It's not too hard

 

[dirtygoat]

I started writing a novel to get my 15 posts in...

 

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