Yesterday I started the rebuild of the steering box on my '68 F-250 4x4 it's the last original component on my truck with over 750,000 miles
After tearing it down it's not surprising it lasted as long as it did it was defiantly over built the only "weak link" is the bushings on the Pittman arm shaft
but that is an easy fix,I'm replacing the bushings with Torrington needle roller bearings. Two bearings and lip seals will run about $30.00, to do this requires that a new cover is made and the bushing bore in the housing needs to be bored out ~ .062" I thing it will take about 4 hours of machining to do. The box will even clear the ways in my 10" lathe so setup is simple as long as it lasted last time this should be a "forever fix"!
I will post blow by blow pics as soon as I'm done, bearings won't be here until next week so I'll try to get pics up to the point on reassembly this weekend
"Beauty is only skin deep....Ugly is to the bone"
It is more important to understand what you don't know than what you do know,because then you can start to learn..???
"you must deal with the attaboys and the ass chewing s with your head up and looking them in the eyes" T.J.E. aka My Dad
There are only three types of people wolves, sheepdogs, and sheep. What are you?
"Beauty is only skin deep....Ugly is to the bone"
It is more important to understand what you don't know than what you do know,because then you can start to learn..???
"you must deal with the attaboys and the ass chewing s with your head up and looking them in the eyes" T.J.E. aka My Dad
There are only three types of people wolves, sheepdogs, and sheep. What are you?
"Beauty is only skin deep....Ugly is to the bone"
It is more important to understand what you don't know than what you do know,because then you can start to learn..???
"you must deal with the attaboys and the ass chewing s with your head up and looking them in the eyes" T.J.E. aka My Dad
There are only three types of people wolves, sheepdogs, and sheep. What are you?
"Beauty is only skin deep....Ugly is to the bone"
It is more important to understand what you don't know than what you do know,because then you can start to learn..???
"you must deal with the attaboys and the ass chewing s with your head up and looking them in the eyes" T.J.E. aka My Dad
There are only three types of people wolves, sheepdogs, and sheep. What are you?
Housing in lathe ready to bore for bearing Iwas wrong before when I stated that it was .062" that needed to come out it's .125" on the Dia. so .062" on a side
the bearings are a B-228 and a B-2216 the seal is a 340853 and I plan to use two one to keep oil in and one reversed to keep crap out
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I tapped out a piece of cardboard to make a pattern to shape the outside of cover
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The end result
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"Beauty is only skin deep....Ugly is to the bone"
It is more important to understand what you don't know than what you do know,because then you can start to learn..???
"you must deal with the attaboys and the ass chewing s with your head up and looking them in the eyes" T.J.E. aka My Dad
There are only three types of people wolves, sheepdogs, and sheep. What are you?
The seal # I listed earlier was wrong,it will fit but it is thicker than the ones i am using.
I am using #50480-S they are .187" thick so two should fit back to back so a lip will be facing both ways.
"Beauty is only skin deep....Ugly is to the bone"
It is more important to understand what you don't know than what you do know,because then you can start to learn..???
"you must deal with the attaboys and the ass chewing s with your head up and looking them in the eyes" T.J.E. aka My Dad
There are only three types of people wolves, sheepdogs, and sheep. What are you?
"Beauty is only skin deep....Ugly is to the bone"
It is more important to understand what you don't know than what you do know,because then you can start to learn..???
"you must deal with the attaboys and the ass chewing s with your head up and looking them in the eyes" T.J.E. aka My Dad
There are only three types of people wolves, sheepdogs, and sheep. What are you?
"Beauty is only skin deep....Ugly is to the bone"
It is more important to understand what you don't know than what you do know,because then you can start to learn..???
"you must deal with the attaboys and the ass chewing s with your head up and looking them in the eyes" T.J.E. aka My Dad
There are only three types of people wolves, sheepdogs, and sheep. What are you?
Now it's time to set the position of the shaft and bearings the 1/2"-20 stud is for shaft position and thrust load. And locked in place with the jam nut.
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"Beauty is only skin deep....Ugly is to the bone"
It is more important to understand what you don't know than what you do know,because then you can start to learn..???
"you must deal with the attaboys and the ass chewing s with your head up and looking them in the eyes" T.J.E. aka My Dad
There are only three types of people wolves, sheepdogs, and sheep. What are you?
"Beauty is only skin deep....Ugly is to the bone"
It is more important to understand what you don't know than what you do know,because then you can start to learn..???
"you must deal with the attaboys and the ass chewing s with your head up and looking them in the eyes" T.J.E. aka My Dad
There are only three types of people wolves, sheepdogs, and sheep. What are you?
My box had 3 .010" shims so I went back with that amount of preload I would have liked a bit more preload bit .010" was too much so I left it as is I didn't have any material to make a new one.
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"Beauty is only skin deep....Ugly is to the bone"
It is more important to understand what you don't know than what you do know,because then you can start to learn..???
"you must deal with the attaboys and the ass chewing s with your head up and looking them in the eyes" T.J.E. aka My Dad
There are only three types of people wolves, sheepdogs, and sheep. What are you?
here the worm is in and cover is sealed and tight.
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here the other shaft/cover are in place
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here it's ready to go back in truck I added a hose to the vent to keep out water during deep crossings,all my other vents are at least 48" off the ground but I never thought about the steering box
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The truck has never had as nice "feel" in the steering as it does now this project was worth the time and money
With 2-3 hours of machine shop time to bore box and machine new cover this project is easy enough that anyone could do it...........there were no surprises in it.
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"Beauty is only skin deep....Ugly is to the bone"
It is more important to understand what you don't know than what you do know,because then you can start to learn..???
"you must deal with the attaboys and the ass chewing s with your head up and looking them in the eyes" T.J.E. aka My Dad
There are only three types of people wolves, sheepdogs, and sheep. What are you?
as long as it lasted last time this should be a "forever fix"!
