Harley:
When you ordered the rack and tie rods, did you tell the vendor it was for a
pickup? When I bought my IFS, it was suggested to mention that it was for a
pickup. I've been told that pickups require longer rack/tie rods than
passenger cars for the very reason you mentioned.
Carl Ham
'56 Chevy Stepside Pickup
Hopewell, IL
>From: howwilcox@juno.com
>Reply-To: howwilcox@juno.com
>To: oletrucks@autox.team.net
>Subject: [oletrucks] Mustang rack
>Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 08:12:26 -0400
>
>I have a 48 Chevy 1/2 ton pick up with a RBs bolt in Mustang cross
>member.
>Can someone tell me the best way to set up the manual steering
>(Mustang/Pinto) rack & tie rods and adjust the upper A arm to have some
>kind of wheel aliment?
>
>Each time I bring the rack to the center of its travel with the wheels
>also centered I run out of threads on the tie rods (short tie rods) so I
>can not attach them to both spindles. without having one wheel pointing
>to the outside.
>
>Harley.
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