You can lift that car 10 foot . It's not going to move the center link away from the Torsion bar or K-member. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see what is wrong here. WRONG COMBINATION OF PARTS> And thats a fact.
Yes, the '73-up pitman stud will go in from the top, facing down. His is the older year going from the bottom up, but with a '73-up center link. Get a '73-up pitman arm and it'll probably lower than whole tie rod end down some. That's why the driver side is really off, and the passenger/idler arm side is not as bad. However I bet your idler arm likely needs to be changed to '73-up as well.
