I bought the center link and the pitman arm for the conversion and I'm confused. The center link has a stud, but so does the pitman arm. I searched the forum and someone gave a part number and they both were right. What am I missing here?
No it doesn't, the center link has a stud for the pitman arm and a hole for the idler arm. You have the wrong pitman arm.
I wasn't sure but I thought it was the pitman arm because the ps center link has the stud and the pitman arm had a hole. But autokrafters showed it was the right one? couldnt find anything on the center link.
The center link I used has holes both ends. The Pitman Arm has a ball joint and stud that fits into the center link hole. Vendor was "Rare Parts" bought thru Advance Auto & Auto Zone.
Thats weird. What year? I currently have 5 Mavericks and Comets and all are manual steering with the set up I mentioned. Plus I just junked one and pulled the linkage. All are 70- 72.
Advance shows a different part number now for the drag link than Autozone (25921 vs 25881) Pitman arm is 20130. Autozone's pic doesn't show the correct part for the drag link or they've got the parts screwed up. I bought my drag link from Advance and the Pitman Arm from Autozone.
The drag link I bought was a 25881. It's been over a year since I put it on the car, so I don't recall if the stud end was the idler end or if I knocked the stud out and used that end with the pitman arm. Try it either way and see what end is what. I'dm dead certain about the pitman arm having a ball joint though that fit into the drag link hole.
