The Lone Ranger – Steering update

So I’ll just start out by saying I was wrong. Heims for the street do in fact suck. After about 7k miles, there is noticeable slop in the heims I was using, and I’m pretty sure the little bit of mud I got into is what killed them. I’ve now gone with the GM TRE’s and I’m amazed that I didn’t notice how sloppy those hiems were getting sooner.

For the TRE’s, its just the typical GM Stuff with Ruff Stuff Tube inserts.

Tie Rod:
ES2027L
ES2026R

Drag Link:
ES2234R
ES2027L

The high steer arms themselves (shown in the D60 portion) are Parts Mike double hole springless arms.

For the pitman arm (no pics, d’oh) I just straightened out the stock arm some to make everything clear. Though it just barely does:

While I was freshening up things, I added a power steering cooler form a Grand Cherokee into the mix:

And an inline filter:

After I head out this weekend, we’ll see if the stock pump will keep up with my needs, or if I’ll need to step up to hydro assist/better PS pump.

I was never wanting for power with this setup, but I had considered adding a small ram just to take some load off the box.