Hubnut
1/2 ton status
On the dana 60, is the driver's side steering stop bolt (on the knuckle) a whole lot longer than the passenger's side? Mine is out about 1.25 inches while the passenger side is out 0.75 inches.
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steering stop bolts
- Thread starter Hubnut
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Right or wrong mine are the same way. It allows full steering but no u-joint bind.
My axles doesn't have any on it, how do you measure to get them right?
cegusman
3/4 ton status
One mine I screwed them in all the way. Turn the wheel all the way to the left until the steering box stops moment. Then adjusted the bolt to contact the knuckle 1/8" to 1/4" before the steering box stops. Did the same turning right. Have not had any issues.
That is the correct way to adjust them. You want the knuckles to hit the stops just before the steering box stops otherwise you'll explode a steering box.
By chance does the truck have wide and/or tall tires on wheels with similar to stock backspacing?
When I first got Big Ugly the 36x12.5-16.5 Goodyear Wrangler HMMWV tires rubbed the drag link when turned hard to the right. The place I had bought it from had never adjusted the steering stops to keep the d-side tire off of the drag link. I went out and bought a longer 3/8" fine thread Grade 8 bolt and installed it in place. Worked great. When I put my 38x11R16 tires on I actually was able to adjust the bolt further in.
Hubnut
1/2 ton status
Tires are little bigger 36 x 1050. Rims are from an M1008. No rubbing issues. One bolt was gone. I replaced both with grade 8 bolts longer than originally there. I have them both out fairly far to prevent ujoint binding in the axles.
