power steering play
Thread Starter
|
Freshman User
Joined: Feb 2017
Posts: 34
Likes: 0
power steering play
hello- maybe im spoiled with the tightness of the new trucks....but I recently swapped in a 76 power steering gearbox to my 71 f-100 and am surprised to find about 30 degrees of steering wheel play. I had my wife move the steering wheel and validated its gearbox play, not drag links etc... would something like a red head reman unit tighten that up? or is that normal? anyone deal with this? thank you in advance
Cargo Master
Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 3,354
Likes: 49
From: Great American SouthWest
hello- maybe im spoiled with the tightness of the new trucks....but I recently swapped in a 76 power steering gearbox to my 71 f-100 and am surprised to find about 30 degrees of steering wheel play. I had my wife move the steering wheel and validated its gearbox play, not drag links etc... would something like a red head reman unit tighten that up? or is that normal? anyone deal with this? thank you in advance
I just did the bottom seals in my steering gear-they're heavy, aren't they!?!?
Anyway, I did the $20 seals cuz the RedHead was over $300 plus a $200 core plus two way shipping...
More Turbo
Joined: Jun 2015
Posts: 534
Likes: 27
From: North Texas
x2 on trying the adjustment on the existing box (Search the forum for how to do this, if you turn the adjustment screw too much you'll have more problems). New Redhead/Bluetop steering gears will certainly solve it but like PBY says, it's $.
Logistics Pro
Joined: Jul 2005
Posts: 4,217
Likes: 154
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
GroovChampion
1973 - 1979 F-100 & Larger F-Series Trucks
3
May 21, 2017 09:32 AM
elemint
1967 - 1972 F-100 & Larger F-Series Trucks
9
Oct 14, 2004 08:56 PM
akmike
1973 - 1979 F-100 & Larger F-Series Trucks
3
Jan 2, 2002 10:50 AM
