So I have all the front suspension set up under the car and I have to do final tightening on the tie rod ends, center link, pitman arm, idler arm, etc. I’m confused because I realize that the idler arm and pitman arm have set torques specs but I can’t see how the steering will operate without fighting against those arms set at torques specs. I mean I tightened down the idler arm top castle nut to about 40 ft lbs as per setting and it seems totally frozen to k frame. I tried moving it by pushing and pulling. No movement at all. Am I over thinking this? Is the manual steering box strong enough to overcome the torques specs of the pitman and idler arm? Maybe they are both supposed to not be movable by hand once torqued down and the steering box has no problem over coming this. I just want to make sure that they normally would feel frozen if moving by hand?
