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Just a little update on my 56 pulled the radiator core support and left hand inner fender well so I could begin the mockup on the steering box mounting. At first I was a little scared that the box was not going to work, do to pitman arm interference with the bottom of the frame rail. However I found that if I build a mount like the one that Grigg built for his. It will space it from the side of the frame enough so that with a drop pitman arm everything will clear just fine. I took some new pictures and left some links to them and some of Griggs to show how it will all work when done. Griggs and mine are very much alike. Some of the differences being Griggs truck obviously is an AD and mine is a TF. Grigg replaced his entire axle witch moved his center link from the bottom rear of the axle to the top front. So his draglink goes part way across and attaches to the center link. I retained the stock axle so my draglink will go all the way across and attach to a steering arm that I fabricated on the right side spindle. The last difference is I am going to move the mounting of my box so that the output shaft of the box is as close to center of the axle as I can. This should give a bit of a mechanical advantage having the travel of the pitman arm and the steering arm/spindles move in the same ark.

Here are some links to Griggs steering system

I give special thanks to Grigg. The steering system was a huge stumbling block for me. If it weren’t for Grigg I would still be falling down on it.

http://rides.webshots.com/photo/1484187233080251109WGIFBu
http://rides.webshots.com/photo/1484181543080251109EhfMez
http://rides.webshots.com/photo/1484188642080251109QyWfxG
http://rides.webshots.com/photo/1484203305080251109hWcwIV
http://rides.webshots.com/photo/1484205568080251109KvyCLX
http://rides.webshots.com/photo/1484207021080251109xOHMld
http://rides.webshots.com/photo/1484227013080251109fWBVpW

For mine go to my Webshots link below. They will be to the end of the green 56 dump truck pics
If I knew how I would add the links in to the text where appropriate.