steering help
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I wish i had a quick answer for you. However, if you take that pic into a Ford dealer's part dept they will be able to bring up a diagram of the part and find it for you.
Good luck
Tim
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Tim
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thanks Tim, hopefully someone else will know i dont have a printer. i have tried searching online for a diagram, and havnt found one. i also tried some junkyards but they didnt have it either. i would think its something i could get at napa since it wears over time im sure other people have replaced it.
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That is a flex joint. It is not a very good design from what LMC Truck.com says. http://www.lmctruck.com/icatalog/fd/full.asp?page=114 A new shaft is $360.00 but a junk yard trip is lots cheaper.
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That's a rag joint. I saw one in the "help" section of advance, or autozone the other day.
Go to a junk yard and find a F series with the U-joint instead of rag joint. Or get the hole saw and old tires out and make your own. I've done that for a couple of IH cub hydros I have. It's good enough for 3600rpm, good enough for that.
EDIT: double them up using longer carriage bolts if you can. Thats how I do my rag joints on the cubs. Also use flaired lock nuts with flange.(not nylon, but punch set type like found on the F series.) Don't over tighen that you imprint the rubber too much. Just good N' snug.
Go to a junk yard and find a F series with the U-joint instead of rag joint. Or get the hole saw and old tires out and make your own. I've done that for a couple of IH cub hydros I have. It's good enough for 3600rpm, good enough for that.
EDIT: double them up using longer carriage bolts if you can. Thats how I do my rag joints on the cubs. Also use flaired lock nuts with flange.(not nylon, but punch set type like found on the F series.) Don't over tighen that you imprint the rubber too much. Just good N' snug.
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Bronco Grave Yard sells the rag joint for an 88-91 but doesn't say if it will fit a F250 steering box.
http://broncograveyard.com/bronco/i-..._rag_joint.htm
http://broncograveyard.com/bronco/i-..._rag_joint.htm
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From: Jupiter
thanks for the help guys, f150xlt that part says it will fit 88 ford trucks so that should work.
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Originally Posted by Mat J
i dont need the hole shaft just the "bushing" that has a big tear in the middle of the red circle. i didnt see it on that lmc diagram, maybe im blind.