Pitman Arm to Steering Box Engagement

[Moparfiend]

I don’t have a picture after tightening down the pitman arm to the box but I DID notice that the pitman arm did NOT slide all the way up the spline of the steering box. Is this typical guys? The picture kinda shows this but after I snugged the nut up it did draw the arm up and in more than what you see but still has more to go but the geometry is limiting it.

Thanks MF

 

[OSDart]

As long as the blind spline matched up you're good to go. You should have, give or take 3/8" of spline showing between pitman arm and box.

 

[Moparfiend]

As long as the blind spline matched up you're good to go. You should have, give or take 3/8" of spline showing between pitman arm and box.

Right on man !!

 

[General23cmp]

So, I noticed my pitman arm's splines look different than the ones I see online on the replacement ones. The ones I see online either have no indexing (all the teeth look the same) or they have four blind splines at 0, 90, 180, and 270 degrees that go the whole length. Mine almost has half of a blind spline at those degrees. From the top of it where it would first engage the steering box, all the splines look the same (I can slip it on any tooth), but about halfway down as you tighten it, it turns into a blind spline. I assume this is what results in it tightening and being able to be torqued. Is this a common configuration or is something wrong?

 

[Moparfiend]

So, I noticed my pitman arm's splines look different than the ones I see online on the replacement ones. The ones I see online either have no indexing (all the teeth look the same) or they have four blind splines at 0, 90, 180, and 270 degrees that go the whole length. Mine almost has half of a blind spline at those degrees. From the top of it where it would first engage the steering box, all the splines look the same (I can slip it on any tooth), but about halfway down as you tighten it, it turns into a blind spline. I assume this is what results in it tightening and being able to be torqued. Is this a common configuration or is something wrong?

Great question. I didn’t want to pull the pitman all the way off so I was not able to see the whole spline.