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67 Turn radius
My 67 doesn't turn sharp at all. I've only had it a couple days and I've to stop and back up 3 or 4 times because I wasn't going to make the corner. Is this normal or does my front end need something??
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Re: 67 Turn radius
Does corner mean turning from one street to another, or into a parking space in a strip mall?
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I'm refering more to like a parking space....
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Re: 67 Turn radius
I'm refering more to like a parking space or even my drive way..
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Re: 67 Turn radius
I'm refering more to a parking space, single car driveway..
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Re: 67 Turn radius
Welcome to the world of old trucks.
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Re: 67 Turn radius
Mine is a 72 but has a lot of steering travel lock to lock...I would think a 67 would be similar.
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Re: 67 Turn radius
my 72 turns better than i think it will. I just have to keep turning the wheel. its like it never ends.
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Re: 67 Turn radius
Maybe I'm just turning the wheel the same amount as my new model vehicles and I need to turn the wheel further to get to the stops.
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Re: 67 Turn radius
My 72 has power steering and it still takes at least one and most of the time two tries to get into most parking lot spaces. Those slots are getting smaller and smaller as well as the lanes.
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Re: 67 Turn radius
My method is move slower, turn steering wheel faster.
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Re: 67 Turn radius
The steering wheel does turn further than I was going, but still coming up short of getting this Bad Boy in a parking spot and driveway. I
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Just go EZPZ ad remember it's a truck and not a slot car.
When soccer moms started driving big 4 door trucks for hauling kids around, the big 3 started making turn radius' a bit tighter and steering more car like. Too many complaints of trucks turning like trucks. ![]() Gary
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Re: 67 Turn radius
Check to see if you have the same number of turns from center to the right lock and center to the left lock. I had the alignment done on my '67 and they set the steering wheel to be straight rather than centering the steering box. I had a half turn more to right than the left. Until I got it corrected I always found parking spots that I could turn right into.
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Re: 67 Turn radius
alot of guys that put bigger tires on the truck cant figure out why the turn radius increases
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Re: 67 Turn radius
Lots of turns lock to lock just means you have a 16:1 ratio steering box. A 12:1 box reduces the number of turns of the wheel lock to lock but the turn radius of the truck is the same for both boxes.
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Re: 67 Turn radius
When Brother Brigham layed out the streets in Salt Lake City, he made them wide enough so a 6-mule team pulling a wagon could make a U-turn. My town didn't get the memo, and our street is fairly narrow. That being said, I can be driving one direction and easily do a U-turn into the 45 degree parking slots on the other side of the road. I don't know what steering box I have, but it always amazes me how tight it will turn. I guess I'm lucky on that score. I wonder what the 'normal' turning radius is on these trucks.
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Re: 67 Turn radius
make sure your center link is in correctly and not backwards this will affect turning radius it's happened to me twice on these trucks
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Re: 67 Turn radius
Does your truck have a disc brake conversion up front?
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