| Steering gear box discovery. [message #258413] |
Sun, 10 August 2014 18:24  |
skip2
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Registered: September 2011
Location: Winter Haven,FL (center o...
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After 3 years of working on trying to get the beast to steer and go where I point it it finally all came together. I have replaced all steeering parts except column and ball joints, didn't have the symptons for them to be bad, did do tie rods, relay arm, idler arm, install adjustable drag link, and rebuilt gear box which helped alot just because of the slop in the old one but wasn't what I would call good. Came back from a camping trip and pulled the rebuilt gearbox and checked it over in the vise with an inch pound torgue wrench. Found it was a 4-1/4 turn box not 3-1/3 thats ok I'll just make sure and not bottom it out. What was the most interesting find was the center of stop to stop and the tight spot for straight ahead were both at 11 oclock about 15 degrees of of where it's suppose to be. Took pink nail polish, not mine, not my color, Marked the flat spot on the top of the box. Marked the flat spot in the u joint on the steering shaft so I could see when the box was on IT'S true straight. Put it all back together, set due north with the pink spots at 11 oclock and it is like someone threw the proverbial switch, It is night and day difference. My math says that 11 oclock is 15 degres which is 5 degrees out off where the sweet spot is suppose to be. Don't want to stir up anything but has anyone else ever found the center to not be at the flat spot parallel with the machine surfaces, Come to think of it gear box I took off had the center spot off to one side. Yes, I can live with the wheel turned to one side it actually makes it easy to hold the wheel with the left hand. It's always been a rocket sled on wheels but now I can steer it.
Skip Hartline
74 Canyon Lands, FiTech,
3.7 FD LSD, Manny Tranny,
Springfield Distributor,
2001 Chevy Tracker Ragtop Towd
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