Steering box question
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Steering box question
Can someone tell me if all 92-96 obs steering boxes are interchangeable?
I have a 95 f350 parts truck, need a steering box for my 93 flareside. Can I swap them?
I have a 95 f350 parts truck, need a steering box for my 93 flareside. Can I swap them?
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the box I want to get says it’s for 80-96 f150,250, and 350 so they should be.
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It might work if you swap the pitman arm to the newer 4 dead spline style. The 80-96 is incorrect IMO because Ford started using a 4 dead spline sector sfaft in about 1994 where the previous boxes had a 3 dead (missing) splines. If the new gear you are looking at has an Allen head adjustment stud it has 4 dead. If it has a flat blade screwdriver slot, it is a 3 dead spline
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It might work if you swap the pitman arm to the newer 4 dead spline style. The 80-96 is incorrect IMO because Ford started using a 4 dead spline sector sfaft in about 1994 where the previous boxes had a 3 dead (missing) splines. If the new gear you are looking at has an Allen head adjustment stud it has 4 dead. If it has a flat blade screwdriver slot, it is a 3 dead spline
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Allegedly some 90's F-350's had the Econoline box with the 4-bolt cover. The shafts and hoses are the same on both except, as noted above, the blind splines may differ- in practice this means you don't need to bother getting the Pitman arm off.
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Sorry about the double post
Do not know how I managed that
Those Econoline boxes, some of them, are the GM style IIRR with the big steel ring on the front
Those take a special tool to overhaul and deal with the ***** in the control valve, and you can't just put the ***** in a slot like the Fords.
I have that tool if anybody wants to see it
Do not know how I managed that
Those Econoline boxes, some of them, are the GM style IIRR with the big steel ring on the front
Those take a special tool to overhaul and deal with the ***** in the control valve, and you can't just put the ***** in a slot like the Fords.
I have that tool if anybody wants to see it
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