power steering leak!
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power steering leak!
have not posted here in a while due to being iced in and busy scraping driveways, but back to the swing of things. my 71 f-250 has a small power steering leak coming from the seal around the input shaft. truck has been setting, so i am sure it is dried out. is there anything to swell this seal, or is it difficult to replace. dont want to take it off onlyto find it looks like a swiss watch when i get it apart. anyone?
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um....well.....I can tell you this...I had to have mine "rebuilt" to get it operational....doing so required finding a "donor" pistol as well as my original, and paying an additional $495 to have a new center piston fabricated at a CNC shop, as the two originals were too pitted to reuse. The assembly process for the piston at the shop took almopst two weeks....as they must weld "soft" metal to "hard" metal and can only do about 3/4 " at a time before setting the piece in a bucket of sand to cool.
When I asked around....I was told there were no more parts available...but obviously the PS shop found some somewhere that worked.
When I asked around....I was told there were no more parts available...but obviously the PS shop found some somewhere that worked.
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Originally Posted by Unimog005
um....well.....I can tell you this...I had to have mine "rebuilt" to get it operational....doing so required finding a "donor" pistol as well as my original, and paying an additional $495 to have a new center piston fabricated at a CNC shop, as the two originals were too pitted to reuse. The assembly process for the piston at the shop took almopst two weeks....as they must weld "soft" metal to "hard" metal and can only do about 3/4 " at a time before setting the piece in a bucket of sand to cool.
When I asked around....I was told there were no more parts available...but obviously the PS shop found some somewhere that worked.
When I asked around....I was told there were no more parts available...but obviously the PS shop found some somewhere that worked.
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Originally Posted by 390fe
Unimog, I hope your pump is different than mine...$52.99 with exchange at my local O'Reilly auto parts store. And they have it in stock. Cardone Industries pn# 20-6098.
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I may have mislead someone on my post. the leak is not on the pump itself, but on the steering box. the leak is on the end where the steering shaft from the column goes in. pump and hoses are fine. seen new boxes listed fairly cheap, but wanted to prolong mine as much as possible. know the seal is dried out from setting, but dont know how hard it is to change. sorry about the mis-info
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In 1987 I had new seals put in mine for $75 parts and labor at my local Ford dealership. Labor rates have gone up since then.
Nope, not mislead, I just didn't read carefully. :-)
I'm a gearhead now, so I'd try to fix it myself before I let someone else do it for me. In 1987, I was 15 and didn't know squat.
Nope, not mislead, I just didn't read carefully. :-)
I'm a gearhead now, so I'd try to fix it myself before I let someone else do it for me. In 1987, I was 15 and didn't know squat.
Last edited by 390fe; Jan 23, 2007 at 08:23 AM. Reason: adding info
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