Re: Upper bolster/steering shaft

Posted by Bob M on September 15, 2006 at 08:30:54 from (151.190.254.108):

In Reply to: Re: Upper bolster/steering shaft posted by Dale Bennett on September 15, 2006 at 06:56:17:

Dale - There’s no steering gear lash “adjustment” per se. A few things you can check and maybe fix however:

With the cover off the steering box, rotate the input shaft back and forth by hand and observe the movement of the gears the slack is taken up.

If the worm shaft shows movement lengthwise it needs a new ball bearing on it’s front end. And if the rear end of the worm shows any radial movement, the bushing there must be replaced.

If the pivot shaft worm gear shows any horizontal (front to back and/or side to side) movement, the upper pivot shaft bushing is worn. The only fix is to replace the bushing.

Finally if there is slack between the worm and pivot shaft gear on account of gear wear, and the worm gear is a full 360 degree style, sometimes removing the gear, turning it 180 deg and putting it back on (so fresh, unworn teeth now engage the worm) helps. But if the gear is the “half moon” style it cannot be rotated – only solution is to replace it.

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My experience is it’s usually a combination of all of the above causing steering play.

Replies:

• Re: Upper bolster/steering shaft Dave 2N 08:44:57 09/15/06 (1)
  • Re: Upper bolster/steering shaft Bob M 09:56:27 09/15/06 (0)

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