About time for an update on the Old Girl. We've been working on the steering A LOT, many nights under the front of the truck trying to work out a few issues. First we had 2 1/4 turns to the left and only 1 1/4 turns to the right, which we've gotten straightened out, but then the steering box started leaking. The steering was very easy almost like the pump was putting out too much pressure, which I think caused out leak. So, the boy said lets just put a manual box on it. So we did, he quickly found out that wasn't going to be the final answer as it is a lot tougher to drive than it looks. So, I ordered a CPP 500 series power steering box and a new pump, which will hopefully be here by Friday. I also ordered new upper and lower ball joints, I think the screeching is coming from one of them on the driver side but I figure I'll replace them all. We also ripped a wheel weight off last night when the boy had the steering cranked to the right so I'm going to look at trimming the lower control arms a bit. I don't think the CPP box has the turning radius that a factory manual box does but we'll trim if needed. Once that work is done I'm going to take it back to the alignment shop and ask them to dial in the specs that board member BMERDOC suggests for lowered trucks and see how that works.
I hope the New Year finds y'all well and I wish each of you prosperity and good luck with your projects in 2018.
The boy (C10_Punk) digging the ride.
