DokWatson
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Torque is NOT applied the same, the pitman arm is indexed differently. With the stock 4wd steering ALL of your torque is pushing against the driver side knuckle working against the bigger tires and steeper angles. Crossover steering changes the steering geometry, it pushes against the passenger knuckle. Think of it this way, is it harder to hold a weight with your arms extended out using muscle, or bent 90 degrees using bone structure.The crossover steering arm adapter looks to be about 2" thick, same as a steering block, I would think that it would be just as easy to break the longer bolts required to install the x-over adapter as it would be to break the bolts in a steering block unless I'm missing something. The pitman arm apears to be about the same length and the distance of the tie-rod mounting hole and center of the king pin appears to be close, so torque applied should be about the same. The 4" drop draglink seems to do pretty good, I have equal steering in both directions and it seems to have retained a similar turning radius. At $450, an ORD crossover kit is on NEXT Christmas's wish list unless something breaks before then.
ORD isn't the only kit out there. I have a Sky manufacturing kit and its plenty stout, and 75$ cheaper.
Of course, this all doesn't really matter unless you wheel your rig. If you can afford to do it wrong, by all means...
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