Hi guys. been awhile. last time i had an issue people on here really helped me out. car runs great but i have noticed power steering box leaks like hell. finally got time to remedy situation. got me a manual box out of a 90 or 91 s10. been reading up and studying things but nowhere does it say if i have to take the pitman arm off the car when i change the box. will reuse it. so when i drop box out and leave it hanging i can just reinstall the manual one. im hoping. im a self taught guy so i could be wrong. so basically can i replace box without taking pitman arm off the center link. think thats what its called. alright. thanks for help.

 

It's a bolt on, but you'll need to reuse your Camaro arm. Leave it on the car and just pull it from the old box, then reinstall on the S10 box.

 

I dunno if manual boxes have a different arm than power. Worth a try though.

 

Same arm on both, as the rest the tie rods and ends wont line up if they changed.

 

Thanks a lot man. big load off my back. weather kept me in today. but soon as i can im crawling under there.

 

Howdy, I am a newbie I was just wondering how is your manual conversion going...I really am interested in doing this myself in my '81 Z and would like to learn all about it.

 

Hi zl1. been working a lot of days lately. sleeping or working past few. finally got box seperated from steering column connector. taking things slow. took lots of pictures and marked position of everything. will keep posted. seperating arm from box today. then im going to bed. nightshift sucks!!!

 

oh yeah. one more thing. manual boxes from the s10s u would want are hard to find nowadays. six junkyards. lots of s10s. power or gone. u see one get it.

 

Know what you mean... i worked nightshift security once, thought it was awesome...at first. Then 4 years went by. For 7 dollars an hour 4 years of my life dissappeared. lol crazy I know, I was. but thanks I am going to start my search for this manual box. what years s-10? Any?

 

Any reason why you wouldn't want to convert to the S10 box and keep it power steering? Are you just trying to get rid of the draw of power steering, or the pump?