My steering is pretty heavy anyway, I guess due to 265/70 tyres. The angle of the draglink probably doesn't help either. Physically impossible to turn the wheels whilst stationary even on loose surfaces.
Driving in 2wd with the hubs locked, I need to use both arms to turn the wheel pulling into side roads etc. Well I need both arms to steer anyway at town speeds, but with the hubs locked it's both arms putting a lot of force on the wheel. In 4wd it's an unpleasant characteristic when going down hills that have bends in them. I think I'd be struggling to get the steering to full lock without getting on the gas.
I hadn't noticed any torque steer, and I have plenty of low down grunt with the 13bt, get 10psi of boost at about 1500rpm and the pump is maxed out.
I didn't take photos, but I'm pretty sure you could only see a small bit of the helical gears from the ends only. I think I might pull it just to be sure. I'd heard about the trick of pulling the whole swivel balls rather than stripping, might try it. Though i probably need to get some longer soft brake lines and I've read it's pretty hard to bleed the tls brakes without laying the backing plate horizontal.
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