just ordered a cross over/ high arm steering system for the truck, a complete kingpin rebuild kit with bronze bushings, new upper kingpins, new springs, lower bearings AND a lower kingpin cap with caster/camber adjusment and a borgeson heavy duty steering shaft... if the truck doesnt handle like its on rails now i'm going to be highly pissed... afterall the trac bar and sway bar didnt do jack. if i had the time i would have just bought the arms and made all of my own links but instead i paid 800 for someone elses pre-enginered product

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pictures will come as progress is made, have to wait for everything to make it to my door step

 

First box arrived yesterday, it had all the rebuild parts. Well everything except the 7/8 Allen tool to remove the kingpins and the bronze bushings were ordered from a different site.

 

 

 

Your going to need the 2wd steering box brace or you will get mad frame flex at the box. Dodge connection makes a new one or you can search the yards and hope you get lucky. Its hit and miss on if the factory put them on or not.


You will love the crossover steering. It is amazing how well it works.

 

Also the spring bushings wear out and cause issues. Check the rivits for the front spring hanger mount. They can work loose. Look your frame over for cracks araoumd the box and the rivits real well too.

 

Thanks for the insight, I have some DOM tubing that should be long enough to make my own brace, already took frame flex into consideration. I'm pretty sure the front hangers are tight, did the lift kit not long ago and everything looked ok. Will double check everything

 

Everything but the steering linkages and lower camber/caster adjustments came in woo hoo

 

Your gonna find that the $50 for the brace is well worth it. Were the box bolts to the frame is not flat, It has recesses and dimples. I considered making a brace for about 2 seconds after looking at it close. The dodge connection brace is a really nice piece. Mine took all of 15 min to install

Power Steering Brace






If you do build one yourself take pics of the process! Hell document the whole conversion step by step, It will make a good sticky!

 

i noticed the tilt of the steering box on the Y axis and contemplated leveling it out. just didnt know if the steering box would bolt back to the frame without the factory plate... removed one in my 84 and i'd rather not have to remove it unless i knew itd be worth the time hahaha. man that brace is sweet... i was going to just run a bar made from .250 DOM from frame rail to frame rail. let me make sure i actually have enough tubing before i go about deciding to make one. i will deffinately take pics all the way thru the deconstruction, reconstruction and upgrade. going to pull knuckle and hub off as one whole unit and re-install in the same manner. i dont want to pull the spindles unless i HAVE to i need to finish my wiring and get the thing inspected before i start on this project, i'll never get the thing on the road if i keep blowing money... i'm contemplating an electric fan set up so i can actually run my fluidampr. someday i'll get to truely enjoy the way this truck should have came from the factory