Steering Gear Box Help Needed
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Steering Gear Box Help Needed
I need to buy a u-joint for a 1995 2WD f150 truck and can't find info anywhere to tell me the shaft size and spline of the input shaft. Jegs and Summit are no help. Looked at Flaming River and Borgeson websites and can't find squat. Googled the hell out of the internet and find nothing. What is the big secret? Does anybody know? I did have a 3/4" - 36 spline coupler laying around and went to Autozone to see if it would fit a steering gear off their shelf - no luck there. I need this information declassified and spread to all. Ford stopped making the lower intermediate shaft and Dorman don't make one. That is all I know.
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The shaft I have has 2 u-joints - no rag joint. I need to find out what the shaft size and spline of the steering gear for the intermediate shaft. I want to buy a replacement u-joint so that I can cut off the bad one and weld on the new one. So just like in the original posting - does anyone know what the shaft size and spline is of a steering gear on a 2WD Ford F-150? Any other information is useless.
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May want to message NumberDummy.
He has the more comprehensive Ford parts and diagrams that I have ever seen.
Be patient. Your probably looking for Unobtainium.
Give him a shout.
He has the more comprehensive Ford parts and diagrams that I have ever seen.
Be patient. Your probably looking for Unobtainium.
Give him a shout.
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No contact info available, so can even send a message. I finally did find a shaft assembly on ebay. I measuring things up and did a 1/2 *** counting on splines, it seems like it might be a 3/4" - 30 spline possibility. The end in question is a mixed up double D and spline hybrid.
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I just found the info after a long exhausting search. .720" diameter - 29 spline and nobody makes them anymore. I got lucky and found a used one on Ebay for a 1 ton E350 diesel van. Crossreference the steering gears and it says it will fit.
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I've never heard of that before. Can you post pics (preferably of the entire steering gear rather than the input shaft)?
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3 weeks of soaking the input shaft with PB Blaster and still can't remove the old steering shaft. I have gently used a small pry bar to try applying pressure to slip it off, but no luck. I don't want to use a pickle fork because I don't know if I could end up damaging something in the steering gear. Advice?
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I got it off. Used a huge pry bar that looks more like a giant chisel and a sledge hammer to split the coupler apart where the bolt holds it together. It worked, but still had fun working the coupler off the input shaft. One big *** flathead screwdriver on each side of it and kept working it till it came off. The "new" part went on really easy.
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