Steering Column Maintenance
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Laughing Gas
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From: Belgrade, MT
Steering Column Maintenance
Have a question for anyone who has torn one of out steering columns open stemming from an OBS truck this week. Buddy has a 93 F250 4x4 SC, 225k on it. Called me Monday night and said his steering wheel was floating all over, something broke. He brought it out, took the covers off, and there is a bearing that appeared to be cast into the front of the metal column assembly. It had lost 2 ball bearings, and was bone dry, no grease at all. So i sent him home in my tacoma, and tracked down a column tuesday at the bone yard. Looking at it, it still had alot of yellow grease in the bearing, was very smooth, out of a rolled truck with 60k on it.
All that said, do we have a similar setup in our columns, and if so, anyone know what type of grease that is, and how bad of a deal would it be to get past the airbags to shoot some grease in there? I don't plan on buying another towing truck, and want to keep the one I have now running best I can, thanks.
All that said, do we have a similar setup in our columns, and if so, anyone know what type of grease that is, and how bad of a deal would it be to get past the airbags to shoot some grease in there? I don't plan on buying another towing truck, and want to keep the one I have now running best I can, thanks.
