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Old 12-10-2012, 11:28 AM
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I'll mail you one for $25, just pulled it yesterday.
Or you can get one from any junkyard.
 
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Old 12-10-2012, 01:28 PM
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Originally Posted by 70-K5
I'll mail you one for $25, just pulled it yesterday.
Or you can get one from any junkyard.
i'll take it, now how to I go about paying you? I have some bully adjustable step bars I took off of mine that i'm not using if you want to trade. Just thought I would throw that out there, I will never be using them. They look like these. Bully Adjustable Side Steps AS-500 - SummitRacing.com
 
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Old 12-11-2012, 09:52 PM
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Originally Posted by 70-K5
The component you need to chance is the steering arm. You have a raised steering arm that is designed for 4-6" lifts. The drag link needs to be parallel to the ground. If you have an option you want it to slope up towards the pitman arm instead of how it is right now.
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a stock arm is good up to 2 inches of lift,

just a little heads up that arm is a mudderfudder to get off of there, dont just expect to unbolt the three bolts and its gonna come off. google around on different methods of getting it off. mine usually consists of burning the old one off, or putting it in a vise and hitting it with a sledge hammer, 2,384 times. you may get lucky if it was just put on but theres actually some goofy crush cone washers that go in there that cause you a bit of problems when trying to remove them

also the dropped transfercase and sway bar probably isnt needed for anything under 4 inches but ddont think it will hurt anything
 
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Old 12-12-2012, 10:16 AM
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I've found the best way to get a steering arm off is to remove the caliper and beat from the back. If you leave the caliper on there just isn't a good way to get to the right spots.

To remove there are the three nuts that you can obviously see. What you can't see is what looks like washers are actually cones that do a very good job of seating the arm onto the knuckle. You need to vibrate those cones so that they back out, after that the arm just lifts off.

Oh, and you need a pickle fork to get the drag link end off... just beat and repeat.

Here's how I took off my last steering arm, I was a little cocky and had my wife take a video.

See if it works:
Dec 4, 2012 3:20pm | Facebook
 
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Old 12-14-2012, 09:45 AM
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Thanks guys, i'm going to try to get it done next weekend. I'll have to check out the video this afternoon, they have Facebook blocked up here at work.
 
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Did you find a stock steering arm? Where did you get it. I need one also.

Can you tell me how flat it is compared to the 4" lift version?
 
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Old 02-04-2013, 10:03 AM
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I mailed him one.
Where are you at?
 
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Should be able to find a stock steering arm in any salvage yard.
 
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