pitman arm??

yota38strong · Jun 20, 2011

Im working on getting everything together for a sas on a 95 s10 blazer and im trying to figure out what pit man arm will interchange with the Saginaw box? Ive heard jeep yj's and xj's have the same box and splines and Im trying to find out if I can use a drop arm for a jeep. yeah i know i could just go out and buy one and see but at $100 bucks a pop i don't like wasting money. Thanks for any info

blacksheep10 · Jun 21, 2011

yes all the sag boxes are teh same pretty much. chevy 4x4 is different. There was a thread on gen4x4 on pirate 2 weeks ago that was a list of all the sag arms with lengths and drops. A dodge 3/4/1 ton has a 4" drop arm that is 6.2 long hole to hole that I use on most of my swap stuff. I get them off trucks I scrap, so I'm down to 2 of them.
Parts mike has teh stock arms for like $35 last time I checked. Find out how long you need it (how far out is the steering hole on your axle). stroke the axle lock to lock and measure the distance used then go lock to lock on your box and find out how long you need to stroke that distance. The stock wj or zj arm (grand waggy) is 1/2" longer giving more stroke for more turning angle. It is all in that thread.

CheapJ7 · Jun 21, 2011

blacksheep10 said:
yes all the sag boxes are teh same pretty much. chevy 4x4 is different. There was a thread on gen4x4 on pirate 2 weeks ago that was a list of all the sag arms with lengths and drops. A dodge 3/4/1 ton has a 4" drop arm that is 6.2 long hole to hole that I use on most of my swap stuff. I get them off trucks I scrap, so I'm down to 2 of them.
Parts mike has teh stock arms for like $35 last time I checked. Find out how long you need it (how far out is the steering hole on your axle). stroke the axle lock to lock and measure the distance used then go lock to lock on your box and find out how long you need to stroke that distance. The stock wj or zj arm (grand waggy) is 1/2" longer giving more stroke for more turning angle. It is all in that thread.

The WikiKelly Strikes again...

I swear man, you should start a Wiki page, and once a Day write down everything you know about a certain swap or part...
Leave the gay pictures you like to show everyone out though... :flipoff1:

benfowler87 · Jun 21, 2011

You have to swap out the steering box for one off a late 90's Astro van. The stock box has the pitman arm pointed backwards resulting in reverse steering. Put a matching Astro box/steering gear box then rock out. If you leave the stock box and just do a pitman arm swap it'll turn the wheels left when you turn the steering wheel right. I just did this swap on a 2001 Blazer.

blacksheep10 · Jun 21, 2011

benfowler87 said:
You have to swap out the steering box for one off a late 90's Astro van. The stock box has the pitman arm pointed backwards resulting in reverse steering. Put a matching Astro box/steering gear box then rock out. If you leave the stock box and just do a pitman arm swap it'll turn the wheels left when you turn the steering wheel right. I just did this swap on a 2001 Blazer.

The S10 steers on the back of the knuckle stock? Just in looking at my bravada, It steers on the front of the knuckle same as I would on any swapped in axle.
Or do you mean you pushed the axle forward and are trying to get the arm to aim forward instead of backward, and if you clock the arm 180* it will be backwards? I'd agree with the last statement. The drive gear is on the other side of the sector on an astro box.

86tank · Jun 21, 2011

What you said last was his problem. They streched the axle foreward just a little bit. When they did that the steering link wouldn't work because his pitman arm pointed towards the rear of the blazer. He tried just putting an astro van pitman arm on his stock box, and that allowed the steering link to clear, but when you would turn the wheel left the tires would go right. The astro van box corrected the problem.

yota38strong · Jun 21, 2011

Im not stretching it if any maybe a inch or two but not by much its going to be a dd so trying to keep it mild.

benfowler87 · Jun 21, 2011

Yeah Kelly, we needed the pitman arm to point forward so that the drag link would line up with the tie rod. Which the Astro van pit man arm did. However the steering was then 180 degrees out resulting in left=right right=left. Installed an Astro box and solved this problem.