Re: Steering Gear Question
Posted by Packard 1948 On 2015/6/24 21:24:57
If anyone wanted to know what the Gemmer steering gear (box) looks like inside, here is a picture of all of the parts cleaned and displayed.
The orange part is actually a neoprene faucet seal that I found at the hardware store. I used it as the front horn tube seal. Mine had deteriorated and Fred from Max Merritt said that it was an O ring.
Since I could not find an O ring of the proper size I used this. To replace it you need to pop the anti rattle spring off of the tube and then slide the old O ring off and slide the new seal over the tube.
It was a rather painless job of disassembling the steering gear and reassembeled it. All of the internal parts looked great so I just replaced the cross shaft lower seal (goes above the pitman arm), replaced the O ring seal, removed the smallest gasket, and reassembled it.
Removing the shim did not make the steering gear any harder (tighter) to turn (it still just turns very freely) and I do not notice any pull through increase in the "high spot".
Question: I tried to turn in the cross shaft adjuster however it only turned in about 1/16 of a turn and then stopped and since I did not want to break anything ... I stopped.
Seems to work fine though...
Bill
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The orange part is actually a neoprene faucet seal that I found at the hardware store. I used it as the front horn tube seal. Mine had deteriorated and Fred from Max Merritt said that it was an O ring.
Since I could not find an O ring of the proper size I used this. To replace it you need to pop the anti rattle spring off of the tube and then slide the old O ring off and slide the new seal over the tube.
It was a rather painless job of disassembling the steering gear and reassembeled it. All of the internal parts looked great so I just replaced the cross shaft lower seal (goes above the pitman arm), replaced the O ring seal, removed the smallest gasket, and reassembled it.
Removing the shim did not make the steering gear any harder (tighter) to turn (it still just turns very freely) and I do not notice any pull through increase in the "high spot".
Question: I tried to turn in the cross shaft adjuster however it only turned in about 1/16 of a turn and then stopped and since I did not want to break anything ... I stopped.
Seems to work fine though...
Bill
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