Cub Steering - Can't Get It Back Together *?@$#

Posted by Paul_NJ on August 30, 2004 at 13:43:17 from (68.239.228.216):

I am stuck trying to put the steering back together on my 51 Cub. I can’t get the two (original) thrust washers that go on either side of the worm gear of the steering shaft back in. If I install them as they originally were, I can’t bolt the steering shaft bearing all the way on. I end up with about a 3/16 inch gap that I can’t close. I have to leave both out to bolt it up. And then, without either thrust washer, I end up with (I’m estimating) 1/16 inch motion along the shaft, and looseness in rotating the steering shaft. The thrust washers are just under 1/8 inch thick. Have I done something wrong?

I had taken everything apart to change the two seals (steering shaft and worm wheel shaft) - and clean and paint. I removed the front end (manual calls it “steering gear housing”) and the housing base to get at everything. The only part I replaced, other than the seals, was the large steering worm wheel bronze thrust washer.

Everything was tight on the steering worm wheel shaft before I bolted the bottom housing back up. There was no slack on the steering arm and it moved smoothly. The problem came when I tried installing the steering shaft. I had no problem getting the steering shaft down into the housing, but it is too tight. It seems like I now need much thinner thrust washers on the steering shaft.

Can anyone tell me what I may have done wrong, or what to look for? Is it possible to have the worm wheel upside down and have the steering still fine, but yet create a different tolerance between the worm wheel and worm gears and therefore not fit with the original two thrust washers?? That's the only thing I can think is different, but it didn't look like I could get the splines of the worm wheel shaft into the worm wheel gear the opposite way so I didn't think I could have reversed it.

I could sure use some ideas . . . .

Thanks

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