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That said, poor weld joints and highly leveraged steering boxes can be a problem even on street driven vehicles. For example, there were some Dodge vans that had a reputation for having a problem with the steering box mountings.



It wasn't just the Dodge vans either. I had the factory welds on my steering box mount fail on my Cuda, and it's never worn anything but street tires. There was a thread here a few years ago about reinforcing the steering box mount welds, and there were 5 or 6 others that said they had complete failures of the welds also. Some guys had some pretty exciting stories from when theirs failed, but I wasn't moving fast when it happened to me, so I got it stopped without hitting anything. Complete loss of steering, though, but if I was moving at highway speeds who knows what the results would have been.

I didn't know anything about welding up the K frame when I fixed the steering box mount, but the next time I pull the engine you can bet the K frame gets welded too!

1974 'Cuda 360/TKO 1990 Ram Van 1998 Neon