<VV> Strangeness with new steering linkage

[Mike Stillwell]

 You do have the Idler Arm bolted up on the inside of
the frame rail, right?

 Mike
 YS-117

--- Edelstein and Payne <eandp at mindspring.com> wrote:

> folks, 
>      Well Doran and I finally got the new gas tank
> and the cross member with the rebuilt/modified
> suspension back in his 65 coupe, and we decided it
> was time to install the steering linkage.  We have a
> new idler arm (the one with the grease fitting), a
> re-built center link with the nylon pitman arm
> bushing, and new tie rods.  We had checked the new
> parts against the old ones when we took the car
> apart maybe a year and a half ago, to make sure
> everything matched up.  We had already put the tie
> rods and the idler arm on the center link, and then
> bolted up the idler arm on the passenger side with
> the 2 bolts through the "frame".  Well the center
> link angles up from the passenger side and ends up
> against the bottom of the trunk over on the driver's
> side.  We've taken everything apart again to see if
> we can put the center link on a different way (like
> maybe we had it "upside down" or something), but
> with the tapered holes, it only goes on one way.  To
> connect up the pitman arm to the steering box (which
> we have ready to go back in also), I will either
> have to bend the center link down, or shim the lower
> of the bolts that hold on the idler arm with some
> washers, to make the center link parallel to the
> bottom of the trunk.  I don't remember there being
> any shims when we took the old one off.  We cleaned
> and painted the whole underside with POR-15, and
> there could maybe be a "glob" of paint that's under
> where the idler arm attaches, but I don't think so. 
> In looking at pictures that we took before we
> disassembled the car, it appears that the new idler
> arm may be hanging down a bit lower than the one we
> took out, but that is real hard to judge.  Anyway,
> what are your thoughts about this "strangeness", and
> how do Doran and I fix and work through it?
>                      Thanks,
>                     Travis Payne, 65 Monza coupe
> 
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