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Originally Posted by weo38
Well checked out my truck over the weekend and found the sources of my "Death wobble". It is both the idler arm and pitman arm. They both have what I would call excessive play. How hard are these to replace and can i do the work in truck meaning not removing any additional parts to do the work?
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1. sorry you have all that to fix
2. glad you found the culprits
3. you can postpone the repairs by adding steering shock, but it will not compensate complitely
4. idler is quite easy. get truck on ramps, chock rear wheels, and just yank it out. you'll need puller for the job or, like me, just hammer hard on the trailing rod to break it loose at the ball joint. then just take it apart in a vise. you'll need to remove idler arm from the axle.
5. pitman sounds like a JOB to do. haynes says to remove steering gear with pitman and diconnect pitman from it in a vise. it's doable, just you'll have to have hydraulic lines disconnected and that is one thing i have never figured how to do with open end box wrenches - they always spread on the nut and slip.