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Well after a long delay, moving always seems to prolong things, I finaly took my cuda for a spin after rebuilding the front suspension.
As a reminder, I upgraded to poly bushings, Moog offset uppers, 1inch t-bars, reinforced K-frame, heavy duty tie rods, solid tie rod sleves, and fast ratio pitman and idler arm, nothing to fancy.
SO my first impresions are, 1 - I need better shocks, the ride is a bit rough, but what can you expect with monroe / Napa shocks.
2 - I am surprised at how hard it is to turn, granted I am running stadard steering and a tuff wheel...but it seems a lot of effort is required to turn at any speed...I think I will move back to the standard 2 spoke wheel for now, and then move to power steering over the winter.
3 - even though the wheels look to be staight when the steering wheel is centered, the car wants to turn left going down the road.
I still need to get an alignment, I eyballed it for now. so I am hopefull that will help with at least the effort required for turning.
Jason
Did I read that correctly that you are running a fast ratio pitman arm and manual steering? If so, yes the steering will be very very very very heavy. ![](/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shock.gif)
Alignment also affects steering effort once underway.
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