Pitman arm is hitting tortion bar! Help?

JohnRR said
Someone was blaming his problem on having a 67 K frame , totally bogus information . The main difference with the 67 K is the idler arm mount , that does nothing to cause his problem. I remember seeing an article in a mopar mag where the author put the later idler arm on a 67 and added a plate to the top to hold the idler stable.

I put a 73 up Box in a 72 Duster wit ha small block , used the 73 centerlink when I discovered I had to change the pitman arm for the new box , this was back when I was 18 ... about 1981 , used the 72 tie rods assemblies , it was a small block with black jack headers that had been bottomed out so many times I lost count , nothing hit anywhere .

The idler on my 69 383 GTS hits the oil pan and the block , they don't make the correct idler for it so I may switch to a later manual box to flip the stud down so I have more clearance , but I'm not sure if the centerlink is going to clear the pan that way. As it is the centerlink is higher on the idler side and is rubbing on the pan wearing a groove in it , the idler was changed once before I bought the car , car has 56k original miles . This has nothing to do with the subject but just showing that things aren't always made correctly either.

At the time the 67 K-Frame was mentioned no one but the OP could see it. If you had bothered to read the entire thread you wouldn't needed to even mention the article you read because that information was contained in this thread also. OP stated he had no idea what K-Frame is in the car or if it was even a V8 K-Frame.

73moparman said
Okay. It previously was a slant six car. Is there any way you can tell if it is a v-8 or a slant six K frame. I bought a brand new pitman arm for a 1973 Duster and it was exactly the same as mine so i know thats not it..

When he started posting pictures we could see what he was working with but until that point no one could look at their computer and see what he was looking at. Was it possible that a previous owner installed a 67 K-Frame? Yes, so it was a valid question at the time.

73moparman said
Power steering..what do you mean what motor mounts?

It was much later in the thread when he finally posted a picture of the K-Frame that included enough of the motor mount to tell it was a 73 to 76 K-Frame.

This young gun is 20 years old, had no experience and was smart enough to ask for help. Others were trying to think of possibilities so the thread changed over time as new information came out. Again if you had read the entire thread before slaming the members that were working with him you would have known that.

I personally admire this young gun a whole lot due to the fact that he worked on this car and fixed it.