is any amount of play in the pitman arms acceptable?

[Bill R.]

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I'm under the impression the pitman arm at the front suffers from no wear becasue the ball joint wears out on the center tie rod where it meets up with the center tie rod.

http://www.bimmer.info/forum/showthread.php?t=12855

[Jeff N.]

I thought he was checking his front suspension and referring to the idler/pittman combo.

thing that we think of as dogbones on the rear suspension. On the front suspension there is 1 pittman arm connected to the steering box, the one on the other side is considered the idler arm