pitman arm

[Alshere59]

Oil pan? Mike maybe a picture would help?

[John Reddie]

Mike,

As has been stated, most pitman arms do have some curvature to them. Is there any way you could compare yours to another one for the same application? They are pretty hard to bend. Good luck.

John R

[greg g]

Will your current part not allow the car to be properly aligned? Will the car not go down the road straight or turn?

And are you using pitman arm in the proper context?? The pitman arm usually refers to the arm that connects to the steering box which translates the motion of the revolving gears into a arched movement. This arm connect eiter directly or idirectly to the tie rods that transfer the motion from the pitman arm to the steering arms at the knuckles.

So which component are you actually concerned about. The pitman arem is a pretty stout piece of forged steel which is unlikely to be bent except as result of heavy collison damage and or shop accident. The tie rods are typically lighter weight steel sometimes tubular and could be bent as a result of wheel to curb (or other obstruction) contact, improper jacking or other light to moderat contact.

Both would be easily reparable with the application of heat and pressure by a competent technician/craftsman.

Just so we are talking apples to apples to which are you referring??

Pitman arm

tie rods (typical for illustration purposes)

[michael.warshaw]

ill get a pic of it when at the shop thanks for all the help.

[Joe Flanagan]

Personally, I doubt it's bent. Like the others have said, it's very stout. If it was subjected to enough force to bend it, that force would have been transferred to other parts. It seems to me other things would have been damaged as well, such as the steering arm's connections to the tie rods and possibly the worm/sector gear in the steering box. They do have a crook in them. I wonder if your guys installed it right. Was it hitting the oil pan before you took it to them?

[michael.warshaw]

That is a pile of offical New York State Horse Ship. Picture of my wife on the tractor was taken behind the barn on the property I owned near Buffalo about 1991.

don is that you in the pic ?

[Don Coatney]

don is that you in the pic ?

No, that is my two step sons. The girl in the middle married the guy on her right.

[michael.warshaw]

cool

[Joe Flanagan]

I certainly hope the pile of ship comment is not directed at your stepsons. Because the only pile I see in that picture is a pile of snow.

[greg g]

apparently the familiar aka for manure was caused by a marine longshoreman's notation

for "Ship High In Transit"

As if the bales of manure being transported as fertilizer would tend to spontaniously combust if it got wet and started to ferment. It was there for noted with the S-H-I-T lable directing it to be loaded in holds above the water line of the vessel.

just incase you were asking.....

[Don Coatney]

Greg;

You are indeed a man who knows his ship....

[greg g]

world famous turd polisher....

[michael.warshaw]

pitman ar mis not bent shop was wrong thanks to all.

[greg g]

might cause me a bit of wonder as to what else they might be somewhat less than fully informed on.

[Joe Flanagan]

But surely that is not the origin of the good "S" word, is it? I thought I read that it went back at least as far as Medeival England. Maybe I don't know ship. Or I'm full of ship, one or the other.

[greg g]

Joe the acronym theory apparently doesn't hold water as the word was in common use in germanic languages (of which English is one) since the 1400's. So I apparently do not know mine..........

[Joe Flanagan]

Boy, that's some old $hi+.

[TodFitch]

But surely that is not the origin of the good "S" word, is it? I thought I read that it went back at least as far as Medeival England. Maybe I don't know ship. Or I'm full of ship, one or the other.

Well, the Merriam-Webster web site says its from an old English word (pre-1000 AD) with first documented use in 1526. I suspect that the "high in transit" is BS. If I remember and feel like it tonight I'll pull out the Oxford English Dictionary and see what they say.

[RobertKB]

Most swear words in English, especially the really bad ones, come from the Norse, Angles, and Saxons who invaded parts of England during the Dark Ages (400-1000 AD). Many other swear words come to us from Norman French. The English were really a very pure race until corrupted by others!