alignment problems

I went out and took a look at the clearance on my car, it has the same 73+ style center link so the tie rod position should be similar to yours. On my car there's more than an inch of clearance between the tie rod end and the torsion bar, and I have 1.12" torsion bars. So my concern would be that something in your steering system is bent. If it cleared before and the pitman was recently changed then it may be that you have the wrong pitman arm on there.

It also looks like the pitman doesn't have a grease boot on it, which it should have. Which may explain why there's grease everywhere. A brand new pitman arm should have come with a boot, so, something isn't right.