Never heard of the Chevy upgrade for steering. Another option is an upgrade to a 3rd generation steering gear. There is a kit out there someplace at about $1200 to this with or there is an old post I found about a guy buildin it himself from parts.

[Quote]It cost me less then $300 and a little time in the wrecking yards and the shop. got a 3gen rebuilt steering box w/lifetime warr. $160 and they took my 2gen as a core. used 3/4 flat stock for spacer mat. drilled and counter bored for flathead screws then drilled and taped for frame bolts. got a double d steering driveshaft shorten to length, fitting for return line in box and a 3gen pittman arm.[Quote] -

Uncle Bubba's Sig:

99 Quad Cab, 4wd, Drag Comp W/Pump Wire & Boost Elbow installed, K&N Air Canon, MBRP exhaust, Belt Drive Lift Pump and bottom Bulkhead feed from the tank, Isspro EV Pyrometer, Boost Gauge, Fuel Pressure Gauge, DT Pro Fab Trac Bar, South Bend 13-1.25 Con O Clutch, Ranch Hand Bumper, Borgeson Steering Shaft, Black Silicone Boots, 2" Lift Soft Ride Front Coils, Solenoid High Idle Kit, Bilstein 5100 HD Shocks, Rickson 19.5 Wheels w/Hancoock Rubber, HD Maxx Link Sway Bar Links, Superlift dual front stabilizer, EGR Brakes Front and Back, RV275 Injector's, Blue Chip VP44, Prodigy brake controller, B&W Gooseneck hitch and more I can't remember right now. Not to mention more to come I'm sure.
374.2/846.7 at 30psi

heres the chevy 1 ton setup. you do need a reemer to taper the holes. But I have one that I will lone out to anyone who needs it. the reamer is $50 from Snap on.
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you can make your own or buy a whole set up from shakerbuilt.
I went with the shaker built setup because all the ends are threaded.

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this was another mod i did that helped quite a bit as well. -

GRI's Sig:

04.5 dodge Smarty POD, Autometer NV gauges, 5" xpandit exhaust with muffler, AFE montser intake with amsoil nano filter.

Yeah, that 1 Ton chebby upgrade is interesting. Like Uncle B, I've never heard of it before. -

AndyMan's Sig:

1999 2500 QC/LB Pictures 4x4 NV-5600 4.10's, Full FASS Setup, Edge HOT Juice/Attitude, Custom Zoom VT clutch, Bilsteins, DSS, DT Trackbar, Silverline 409 Exhust, BHAF, Jacobs E-Brake, Weatherguard 117-5-01 saddle box, XRF Ball Joints

Our 99 has a Chevy box on it, PO put it in so I don't know whats involved, I was wondering if it was a direct bolt in. Anyways, the trucks got just over 200k on the clock, but the steering box was "New" when we bought the truck, at 178K, and its already as bad as the original box in my 97. It does get beat on pretty good, but still, 30k miles out of a steering box is pretty shameful.

For the extra cash I'll spend it on something that makes the truck much more pleasurable to drive, like a good steering box. -

MotorOilMcCall's Sig:

99 2500 RC 4x4 5-Spd - Quad XZT, Leveling Kit, 35" X-Terrains, Ranch Hand Bumper, PPE Lift Pump

98 3500 12V QC 5x5 5-Spd - 191 DV's, 370 EDM's, 4K GSK, 17* Timing, SBC 3850 Puller Dual Disk, Big Input Shaft - SOLD

Personal exp. with them being sucky? I was thinking about getting one,but if they suck I won't bother...I stay on road most times,but run Canada alot,and SK has some roads that I'd be better off running up the ditches -

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01.5 Ram 3500,NV5600,2000 engine RV275 Injectors,4" MBRP,Fuel boss,425k
85 Ford crewcab 6.9

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Another thing to try is having the alignment shop put some negative caster into the front end to help keep it from wondering. -

Got the Borgeson steering shaft installed the other day in hopes of that bein the problem because it's half the price of a new gear. For better or worse it did fix the tight steering problem but not the wandering. The joints in the stock shaft were still tight in the twisting department. The stock shaft though was also hard to flex the joints even by hand much less trying to twist them with the steering wheel. On the new shaft they just flop around like dead fish and it took all the tension out of the steering. I was also gonna change out the power steering pump, I thought mine was shot because the truck was so hard to steer. So it did fix a problem just not the one I was currently workin on. -

Checked the steering gear today with some help and it's apparent that it's bad. I can move the front wheels inches back and forth and never move the steering wheel. I can also move the steering wheel several inches and never move the tires. With me laying under the truck watching where the pitman arm connects to the steering gear I had my kid move the steering wheel. You can plainly see the slop in the shaft coming out of the gear. As the steering wheel moves it wallows all around the opening before engaging the tires and moving them.

So now to decide which PSC box to go with.

The Light Valving one. http://www.pscmotorsports.com/sg841m...ving-p-92.html

Or the standard upgraded one. http://www.pscmotorsports.com/sg841m...ear-p-590.html -

The new PSC gear showed up today, anybody got any words of advice for doing the swap. Warnings, tips or suggestions, I'll take em all. I wanna figure out how to drain all the fluid in there so I can refill with fresh while I'm doin this. -

yeah get a puller to remove your pitman arm and be prepared to add some heat and a hammer to it -

Whoa, what you talkin about heat and hammer, to do what. Don't talk like this. So what am I gonna be usin heat and a hammer on.

I just replaced the pitman arm within the last year so it shouldn't be to stuck yet. -

when you tighten the nut that holds the actual pitman arm on to the steering box it is a press fit so the more you tighten the nut the tighter the arm is on the splines. when I had my second gen I was removing boxes every 2 weeks or so and everytime they were a bitch. -

If I have to much trouble with the arm I'll just pull it from the tie rod and leave it. They don't cost that much to replace anyway that I'm gonna fight it.

So if I just pull the gear box and start the truck up will it pump all the old fluid out through the hoses or do I need to do somethin more to get it all out. -

turn it on and turn it off. that should be more than enough to get rid of the fluid. any more than that and it will be dry and you'll be adding a pump to the list.I wouldn't suggest that. a safer way is to unhook the hoses and loosen the bolts so it can be turned and drain it or you can take a gravy baster and suck all the fluid out from the fill cap. you'll get most of it out that way. I would also recommend adding 20-50% lucas steering fluid. I swear by that stuff. Anyone that owns a ford will tell you that the lucas is the shiz. gets rid of the "infamous steering wine" that fords seem to have. -

So we pretty much established the fact that the the Dodge/Cummins steering brace isn't a fix for bad steering but is it a worthwhile addon to the new steering gear to help lengthen it's lifetime expectancy. -