Acdelco Professional 45C0045 Pitman Arm

This appears to be a quality drop pitman arm. Went on with no issues, took grease well and has a very nice seal. Save yourself some time by moving your steering box around with the hydraulic lines and steering shaft attached. You don't have to take the steering box out of the vehicle to do this job. Pull the three bolts out of the steering box that holds it to the frame after removing the pitman arm from your drag link. After the steering box is removed from the frame, move your steering box around past the sway bar until you can get a socket on the large nut holding it on your pitman shaft. There is enough room to get on a pitman arm puller too. Put your new one on and torque the nut. Move your box around to get the pitman arm ball joint into your draglink. Put on your castle nut and move your steering box back to your frame rail and insert the large three bolts. This was done on a 1999 Suburban 4x4.

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Investing in quality parts is important to keep your vehicle running properly. This is especially true with suspension and steering parts. You need to ask yourself: Do I really want to do this job again? Replacing this pitman arm and idler arm on my 1993 K1500 was difficult. The steering box needs to be removed on this year and model, and you need to make sure you have a pitman arm puller tool. Using the puller is much easier anyway when the steering box is outside the vehicle. Then you need to add fluid and bleed the power steering box. You also should get an alignment afterwards. Invest in quality parts and you will save yourself the hassle of doing this job twice. This pitman arm is definitely a high quality part.

Parfait

Fit my original steering box for my 97 k1500 5.7 just fine. Pitman arm was stuck in gear box pretty good and puller wouldn’t get it, so I cut a ‘relief’ spot in the pitman arm with my angle grinder and tapped a chisel in the relief spot to crack the pitman arm, then the puller pulled the pitman arm off with no problem at all.