Identify this steering box

[MTMike]

Is this a 2wd or a 4wd box?

My truck's vin is a C10, but I'm wondering if the PO put a 4x4 box in there or if he just moved the pitman arm on a 2wd box.

 

[4X4HIGH]

That is definately a 4WD box. On the 2WD box the pitman arm is held on with a large nut on the bottom of the shaft and not a bolt through the pitman arm.

Also on 2WD box's the pitman arm can be indexed 4 different ways but on the 4WD box the pitman arm will only go on one way.

 

[MTMike]

That is definately a 4WD box. On the 2WD box the pitman arm is held on with a large nut on the bottom of the shaft and not a bolt through the pitman arm.

Thanks, thats what I need to know.

 

[1-ton]

Also a 2-WD boxes pitman arm has a ball joint (as opposed to a tapered hole, which a 4-WD box has) where the pitman arm connects to the drag link (unless the 2-WD box is being used on a cross-over system).

 

[sweetk30]

the vin is most likly correct for the body. it was possible swaped to the 4x4 frame at one time.