1970 Restomod Build

Still working on the steering. Looking solid here.


Tie rod flip went well. Like the clearance gained.


We look to be correct here.


My dilemma is that there is only one turn of rotation to the passenger side.
YJ box, YJ pitman arm, CJ7 tie rods and drag link that came with the axle. Searched everywhere and didn't find the fix for this.
Reaching out to the group for where this went wrong and a possible fix.

 

How many turns is the box? And are there more turns to the other side?

 

I'm guessing longer drag link and center the box

 

1.25 turns to the right. 2.5 or so to the left

 

Sounds simple to remove the pitman arm and center the wheel. Put pitman arm back on aiming straight back. Don’t let draglink determine the position. You may need a longer or shorter draglink. Speedway Motors has raw stock drag links fairly cheap.

Some arms have flat spots in the splines and will not allow you to install the arm where you want. In that case you must get a triangle file and cut splines into the flat spots.

 

https://www.speedwaymotors.com/Spee...-Rod-Drag-Link-Tubing,27189.html?sku=91634-30

 

It sounds like your box is off center roughly 1/2 turn.
You can clock the pitman arm in 1/4 turn increments. Remove the pitman arm and rotate it 1/4 turn on the splines to the rt. Loosely install the nut and turn the steering wheel until the wheels are straight.

 

Completed a few small items.

Extended the bump stops down. Replaced the wheel spacers. The ones I had were an odd metric nut. Two different lug nuts were going to be trouble sooner or later.


Bent the shifter cane to fit, Bought it long to cut it to length. Might just leave it long


Locked in the steering shafts and a little paint.


Installed the steering brace. I had wondered for some time if it was going to miss the winch plate.

 

Plugging along, Made the brake connections to the wheels and master cylinders. Bled the system out.

Thinking of redoing the lines from the distribution box to the master cylinder and add a couple of coil winds.




Sent the Jeep off to the exhaust shop. Also having them burn the steering box and bottom shock mounts in with a bigger welder. It will be gone for a week or so. Started working on getting ahead on some other items.

Weather was good so the grill got painted.


Brought the windshield over to evaluate it. That got out of hand quick. Changing it from white back to black,


Put the last of the big parts on order. Fuel injection and the Saturn overdrive. Both of those are at least a month out.