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Tue, 11 May 2021 08:50

rjw

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boybach wrote on Tue, 11 May 2021 00:08

Curious about whether anyone has tried this ...speaking to someone today who said it might be an idea to replace the steering box with a (new) larger unit from a heavy duty truck.
What do we think about going that route? possible? unnecessary? easy/difficult to fit?

Larry

You don't want to go that route due to the fact that the number of turns "lock to lock" needs to be limited to ~3 1/3 turns of the steering wheel. Any more than that will damage the knuckles etc. As was probably mentioned before, even the same steering boxes from the auto parts store, like for a pickup truck, will have more turns and that would be bad. Ask Dave L. about this as he has seen boxes from trucks that can't be used for his rebuilding.

Richard
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		Re: Centering the steering box By: JohnL455 on Mon, 19 April 2021 10:45
		Re: Centering the steering box By: Matt Colie on Mon, 19 April 2021 11:22
		Re: Centering the steering box By: boybach on Mon, 19 April 2021 11:46
		Re: Centering the steering box By: Bill Van Vlack on Mon, 19 April 2021 13:57
		[GMCnet] Re: Centering the steering box By: Ken Henderson on Mon, 19 April 2021 17:10
		Re: Centering the steering box By: boybach on Mon, 19 April 2021 16:04
		Re: Centering the steering box By: Larry on Mon, 19 April 2021 18:27
		[GMCnet] Re: Centering the steering box By: James Hupy on Mon, 19 April 2021 20:54
		Re: [GMCnet] Re: Centering the steering box By: boybach on Mon, 19 April 2021 22:21
		Re: Centering the steering box By: boybach on Mon, 19 April 2021 20:20
		Re: Centering the steering box By: Matt Colie on Tue, 20 April 2021 16:29
		Re: Centering the steering box By: JohnL455 on Tue, 20 April 2021 17:56
		Re: Centering the steering box By: boybach on Tue, 20 April 2021 23:01
		Re: Centering the steering box By: rjw on Thu, 22 April 2021 12:58
		Re: Centering the steering box By: RF_Burns on Wed, 21 April 2021 06:02
		Re: Centering the steering box By: boybach on Wed, 21 April 2021 10:26
		Re: Centering the steering box By: RF_Burns on Wed, 21 April 2021 11:39
		[GMCnet] Re: Centering the steering box By: sgltrac on Wed, 21 April 2021 11:43
		Re: Centering the steering box By: boybach on Thu, 22 April 2021 11:19
		Re: Centering the steering box By: Bill Van Vlack on Thu, 22 April 2021 13:02
		[GMCnet] Re: Centering the steering box By: Ken Henderson on Thu, 22 April 2021 14:19
		Re: [GMCnet] Re: Centering the steering box By: boybach on Thu, 22 April 2021 20:37
		Re: [GMCnet] Re: Centering the steering box By: Bill Van Vlack on Thu, 22 April 2021 23:16
		Re: [GMCnet] Re: Centering the steering box By: boybach on Fri, 23 April 2021 11:12
		Re: [GMCnet] Re: Centering the steering box By: Bill Van Vlack on Fri, 23 April 2021 13:29
		[GMCnet] Re: Centering the steering box By: jimk on Fri, 23 April 2021 17:54
		Re: [GMCnet] Re: Centering the steering box By: boybach on Thu, 29 April 2021 23:02
		Re: Centering the steering box By: boybach on Wed, 21 April 2021 11:54
		Re: Centering the steering box By: Bill Van Vlack on Wed, 21 April 2021 12:15
		Re: Centering the steering box By: Scott Nutter on Wed, 21 April 2021 21:31
		Re: Centering the steering box By: boybach on Wed, 21 April 2021 23:54
		Re: Centering the steering box By: JohnL455 on Thu, 22 April 2021 12:04
		Re: Centering the steering box By: boybach on Fri, 23 April 2021 21:00
		[GMCnet] Re: Centering the steering box By: Ken Henderson on Fri, 23 April 2021 21:46
		[GMCnet] Re: Centering the steering box By: jimk on Fri, 23 April 2021 22:30
		Re: [GMCnet] Re: Centering the steering box By: boybach on Fri, 23 April 2021 23:19
		Re: [GMCnet] Re: Centering the steering box By: Bill Van Vlack on Fri, 23 April 2021 23:31
		[GMCnet] Re: Centering the steering box By: James Hupy on Sat, 24 April 2021 00:02
		Re: [GMCnet] Re: Centering the steering box By: boybach on Sat, 24 April 2021 01:27
		Re: [GMCnet] Re: Centering the steering box By: Bill Van Vlack on Fri, 23 April 2021 23:08
		Re: Centering the steering box By: Matt Colie on Sat, 24 April 2021 08:34
		Re: Centering the steering box By: boybach on Sat, 24 April 2021 10:18
		Re: Centering the steering box By: boybach on Mon, 10 May 2021 23:08
		Re: Centering the steering box By: Bill Van Vlack on Mon, 10 May 2021 23:20
		Re: Centering the steering box By: rjw on Tue, 11 May 2021 08:50
		Re: Centering the steering box By: boybach on Tue, 11 May 2021 10:46
		[GMCnet] Re: Centering the steering box By: jimk on Tue, 11 May 2021 23:59

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