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steering box
Matt_H:
my problem with the suport arm thingy (not sure what you call it) was that the bolt was rusted inside the hole no oil would get in..oxy was the only way to get it out heating it red hot to crush the rust.. Wish I had the balls to have my own gas setup!
Just not sure if I should try this one myself or not, things seem easy then take me about 4 days.. at least its not my only car :-)
Thanks for your advice.
Matthew
hobbit:
Support arm, I'm presuming you mean the track rod end piece on the end of the drop arm that links it to the bar that runs down to the nearside wheel area
If you have a drop arm on the replacement box, all well and good, if not once the old box is off, you could take it somewhere for the arm to be released, with heat and/or a puller etc, then replace the arm onto the new box
Matt_H:
The bit I mean is about 10 inches long and pretty striaght, it has a bolt hole which bolts just above the chasis rail through a welded on support. It bolts through the middle through the steering box, and at the bottom there is a bigger hole and it slots over a thingy coming out of the steering box and then finally has a place that a bush sits in and mounts to the rod that keeps the axle in the right place (left to right)
gosh I'm dead technical with my terminology aren't I? ;-)
Anyway I had to take that off and the middle bolt was totally ceized in to the solid bit, I took the rest of it off so that I could get the heat on it.. all the others came off with a little persuasion
The reason I took it off was because I used a 90/110 steering guard which mounts over that middle bolt (£50 was a lot cheaper than £100 for the equiv discovery one). You also have toweld a couple of brackets on that the 90/110 already has, but that only took a few minutes compared to getting that one bolt out!
It's funny they made power steering fluid red, it looks like my truck is bleeding!
Matthew
hobbit:
I understand the piece you mean now. You can leave that piece attached to the steering box, and just undo the nut from the side, taking the bracket off complete with the box. I wonder if you have applied heat around the box is the reason why its leaking like a sod, the heat may well have damaged the seals inside the steering box
Matt_H:
I doubt it was the heat, as the arm was about 1/8 mile away from the car at the time! :-)
The box was leaking a bit anyway but now it's leaking a lot - I kind of expected it to go sometime though - oh well!
Any ideas where the best (read cheapest) place to get one is?
Matthew
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