70 RR
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WOW, thanks Doug.
Let me tack this on to this thread, because it seems to be a similar problem.
We've got a '70 Road Runner that was manual steering. Pulled the manual box and got an O'Reilly's box that's supposed to be a power box for a '70 RR, also got the pitman arm to go with the box. Hooked everything up, centered the steering box and installed the steering wheel. Car drives straight, but when I took it for alignment, they said that they could not center the steering wheel. Looking at this thread makes me wonder if the center link is different between the power and manual steering cars?
Had the exact same thing happen to me after upgrading with the PST kit and the solid tie rod sleeves, turns out one of the previous owners bottom'ed out the car so hard it bent the welded on bracket to the steering arm and raised it up, never noticed it until we put on the bigger tie rod ends on then it was obvious, we had to cut one of the sides of the bracket off & re weld it in place and add in some gussets for extra support so it would not bend again. all good now. Was confusing at first then it all made sense, unfortunately after that you find other bent parts on the k member
RocketViper, Rick Rockett here.Adding more information (and possibly confusion) for others that happen to come across this same problem - where the cross link bar tilts up on the passenger side hitting the oil pan and the tie rod end and/or zerk fitting hits the torsion bar. I have the same exact problem ... interestingly enough, after upgrading to the PST system. And why I quoted the message below - my idler arm mount looks identical to the picture. So either my roadrunner had the same exact "bottom out" or it truly is an issue with the idler arm provided by PST (or other replacement) idler arms as the original op mentioned he also changed that prior to upgrading to PST.
So it has me wondering if there are different idler arm lengths (maybe having to do with manual vs. power steering for the 1968 - 1972 roadrunners)? Mine has manual steering btw.
And the fix I'm going to try - I plan to try the 1973/74 idler arm to see if that corrects the problem. Always wanted an extra inch - lol.