TTI Clearance

jimjimjimmy said
it won't hurt one thing to heat it up and bend it 1/4 inch it's been done that way for 50 years .
give Chuck Lofgren a call and ask him what he recommends .

Won’t hurt a thing huh? You mean it won’t change the arc that the pitman arm moves in? Which won’t change the steering geometry? Because it sure as hell will.

People used to ride around in cars without seat belts too, and not all of them died. But that doesn’t make it a good idea, let alone safe. Just because someone did something stupid in the past and lived to tell about it doesn’t make it the right way to do it, it just means they got away with doing something stupid.

Mlarche said
So I backed off the torsion bar tension, loosened the transmission mount, lifted the motor with an engine hoist, and loosened the k-member. With all that stuff loose I was able to shift around the K-member and motor slightly and get a little more clearance with pitman arm. I ended up putting a shim on the drivers side motor mount and that did it. Now the pitman arm clears the header by about 1/8" and I didn't have to dent my headers!

There you go! This stuff can take some adjusting to work properly, especially when headers are involved.

I would still recommend changing out that pitman. The idler looks new, and you’re supposed to change the idler and pitman as a pair. Plus the pitman looks a little rough, it could still be bent or tweaked somehow.