Powersteering Advice

[Chaparralman1974]

Good morning everyone!

I have been going back and forth regarding powersteering in my 1967 K20. My truck came with manual "Armstrong" steering. I am to the point where I want to get the steering gear rebuilt. There is a bit of binding in it, and I figured that I would just send it off to either Redhead Steering or Bluetop for a total rebuild. A full rebuild is betweeen $300 and $400 depending on which one I go with plus shipping to and from the rebuilder. So that got me rethinking the idea of powersteering. First off, I am staying with the original closed knuckle axles and I have no intention of swapping it out for an open knuckle. So, from what I understand, in order to add powersteering to my setup, I would need to get one of Captain Fab's adapter plates to mount the steering gear to my frame. Additionally, as I understand it, I would need to shorten the steering arm on the driver side knuckle by about 1 3/4" in order to allow for the pitman arm to move the drag link (which has to be upgraded from the original solid one piece design to the 3 piece setup off of a '73 and up model) in such a way that it doesn't impact the leaf spring brackets. Do I have this summed up in my head correctly? Is there anyone else who has added powersteering to a '67 K10 or K20 AND kept the original axle? I have looked at a couple of threads where guys with '66s and earlier have done it, but I am not 100% sure that the '66 and earlier has the same frame specifics as my '67.


Thanks, Clay