Technical welding pitman arms

A lot of s****yards now have Niton XRF ****yzers so they can know positively what they're buying. It only takes a couple minutes for a Niton gun to tell you exactly what alloy you have, and if a s****yard in your area has one they'll normally tell you what a part is made of for a few bucks.

 

XRF = X-Ray Fluorescence, take to s****yard is a great idea to have a more positive ID of the material.

 

I've welded a few of them when I was younger. Malable steel with 7018 low hydrogen rod using a beveled "V" type joint. Had a sector shaft break but not the pitman arm. Just be careful when you do the job and don't try to turn the whole thing into a molten m***. Use a good slag chipper between weld p***es and peen it when complete.

Dave.

 

I've used this method several times on cars I've done and I believe it to be very safe. It's not cut and welded it's fabricated with the splines and taper in a flat piece of good quality steel

Pat

 

This is how I did the one for my T

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Here is one I made just as Marty described ^^^

 

Looks like a good way to do it


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Ive made a couple of pitman arms, cut them out then sent them away with the steering box to have the female spline spark eroded, far safer and a hell of a lot tidier than welding in a spline in my opinion..