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Sep 6, 2007 | 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Mil1ion

My Parts Numbers and illustration discs don't show any plastic insulator whatsoever.
In fact, item 3A525 is shown as a coupler with the rubber attached part.

just like here on rockauto.

http://www.rockauto.com/catalog/x,carcode,1120813,parttype,7418

I am sure Ford also figured out that a plastic rag-joint was not a good idea and discontinued the part long ago. I remember seeing a guy on ebay selling a NOS Ford plastic steering coupler for the F150 last year, but I did not want anything to do with it after mine fell apart when I went to remove it. I bought a rubber style rebuild kit and I rebuilt mine and I also added a ground wire to it, since the metal ground strap also fell apart when I took the old one apart.

Here is picture of the plastic style steering coupler before I removed it. Not a very good picture, because it is covered with dirt and grease. The white arrows are pointing to some large cracks in the plastic disc.

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Sep 6, 2007 | 09:12 PM

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Sep 6, 2007 | 09:46 PM

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Dennis, from that exploaded diagram you really can't tell what material the coupler is made of. My old coupler looked just like the picture you posted earlier only it had a plastic disc where the rubber is on your coupler.

Sep 6, 2007 | 09:54 PM

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Check out this thread:

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/4...rag-joint.html

Sep 6, 2007 | 11:30 PM

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Thanks.
Being moved from the old 61-79 forum to the 67-72 forum that makes more sense

I'll check my 65-72 Book

Sep 7, 2007 | 07:23 PM

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So I am off to the boneyard tomorrow to try and put to rest my horn issues. I will let everyone know what happens. Thanks guys..

Sep 8, 2007 | 10:59 AM

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this just gets better and better....please see my gallery for a pic of my rag joint...hopefully we can clear up some of my confusion. Thanks

Sep 8, 2007 | 11:34 AM

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You have a 4x4

I thought someone else asked if it was a 4x2 or 4x4

The other end from the pic end has the rag joint on it.

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Sep 8, 2007 | 04:20 PM

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Boy do I feel dumb. That area is so covered in gunk, I will have to degrease it to even ID what is what...Sorry about all the confusion. Thanks

Sep 8, 2007 | 05:45 PM

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Sep 8, 2007 | 05:53 PM

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Dlobacz, (i havent been following this post, hope this has not been covered) have you put a test light on the horn wire to see if it gets power, and checked to make sure it has a good ground

Sep 8, 2007 | 08:28 PM

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Yup, that is what I was looking at...hope to get it cleaned off tomorrow to see what I have as far as the ground. Thanks for all the help on this 'way more difficult than it should be' problem.