Hey,
Writing this to see if anyone has run into this issue and what the solution is. I am currently working on the steering cause it seems to work better when the ball joints aren't all friction welded after 42 years. Anyways, I purchased a center pin rebuild kit from Cruiser Corps. The site advertises these kits to fit all years (with that specific part) at a reasonable price. Being in Costa Rica, getting parts can be a tad tedious so I took this chance to get it. Moving forward, I rebuild the part and went to install the steering center arm and it doesn't fit. The arm, which is original to the vehicle has 38 splines and the rebuild part is 46 splines. Trying to find a better parts description seem impossible ie "amount of splines on the part" and not just "remanufactured original".
Have any wrench turners run into this fiasco? My only solution at this point is to find the part used in country, frankenstien it and hope for the best or take the arm to a machine shop to see if it can be milled to a 46 spline.
Writing this to see if anyone has run into this issue and what the solution is. I am currently working on the steering cause it seems to work better when the ball joints aren't all friction welded after 42 years. Anyways, I purchased a center pin rebuild kit from Cruiser Corps. The site advertises these kits to fit all years (with that specific part) at a reasonable price. Being in Costa Rica, getting parts can be a tad tedious so I took this chance to get it. Moving forward, I rebuild the part and went to install the steering center arm and it doesn't fit. The arm, which is original to the vehicle has 38 splines and the rebuild part is 46 splines. Trying to find a better parts description seem impossible ie "amount of splines on the part" and not just "remanufactured original".
Have any wrench turners run into this fiasco? My only solution at this point is to find the part used in country, frankenstien it and hope for the best or take the arm to a machine shop to see if it can be milled to a 46 spline.