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OK, OK. I went out to tackle this issue, and this is what I found. First of all, after counting the turns lock to lock and going back halfway, the truck was turned to the left a little. The steering wheel wasn't straight either. Then I went underneath to check the position of the pitman arm, and it wasn't parallel to the frame rails either. I thought it to be pretty easy to just take the pitman arm off the splined output shaft, and recenter, the only problem was that the splined shaft has four large centering grooves in it, so the pitman arm will only go on one way. I then noticed that the darn left wheel has the tie rod arms adjusted all the way out, and the right tire has them all the way in! WTF! So at the risk of sounding to ignorant, the tie rod adjustments on both wheels should be somewhat close, correct?

Another thing. When trying to undo the nuts on the tie rod ends or the pitman arm, the shaft just spins and spins. How do you get these things off?