yet another steering question
Post Fiend
Joined: Apr 2008
Posts: 8,261
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From: Big Sky Country
When you turn the input shaft does the sector shaft turn simultaneously, or is there a lag between the two?
Freshman User
Joined: Mar 2013
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FYI on the shipping end. Don't take the El Cheapo way out. Pad the heck out the box and buy a box rated for the weight times 1.5 to ensure your box makes it there. I've seen some really bad shipments comes in our warehouse on heavy items that half the stuff came up missing. Also ensure it for as much as it will take to get a new one.
Cargo Master
Joined: Nov 2010
Posts: 3,172
Likes: 101
From: darlington
Red head steering
I went to ups,I had it wraped with towels and duck tape,they boxed it and the plastic bubbles ,Red head had it back it seems like less than a week with pretty much the same packaging I sent.
Cargo Master
Joined: Nov 2010
Posts: 3,172
Likes: 101
From: darlington
Red Head steering
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</TD><TD style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 15px; WIDTH: 69.62%; PADDING-RIGHT: 15px; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=wsite-multicol-col>Red-Head Steering Gears Re-manufacturing Process
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</TD><TD style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 15px; WIDTH: 69.62%; PADDING-RIGHT: 15px; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=wsite-multicol-col>Red-Head Steering Gears Re-manufacturing Process
- Machining out the housings and installing needle bearings
- Flame-spraying or replacing the shafts as needed Installing new control valves on some applications
- Custom fitting each worm & piston assembly with special ordered, precise over-sized ball bearings.
- Install every sector shaft on a lathe to check for straight and true,
- polish the sealing surface to a higher polish than new.
We use only the highest quality seals. All our seals are either O.E.M. or produced by two high quality, long time suppliers of our industry.
Probably the most unique and important thing we do is custom fit every single worm and piston assembly with new precision fit steel *****. This is a process not matched by any other company in the industry. This process is very important. The machining tolerances of the original manufacturing leave a small and varying amount of play that can be corrected in no other way.
Why don't other builders do this? It is expensive and time consuming to set up. This is one of the reasons you may find another unit somewhere else for less money but the quality cannot be beat. This is why we proudly declare that we are "Not the Biggest... Just the Best!"
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When your ready thats the way to go. clean it up use it and when the time is right you now no where to send that desirable 4 bolt steering box
Post Fiend
Joined: Apr 2008
Posts: 8,261
Likes: 15
From: Big Sky Country
Lares Corp. reman's the boxes for LMC, they sell direct to the public as well.
Lares Corporation
(Though i'd personally recommend Red-Head)
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Senior User
Joined: Oct 2009
Posts: 210
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From: Springfield
Ok. I went to the parts store today too get the drag link I need and they have this really long one. It's a chassisrite rds917 but it's really long...am I suppose to get that one then cut to the right length ?