Power Steering Gear: Disassembly
CAUTION:
Do not clamp the steering gear assembly in a vise by the power cylinder housing.
- Remove dust cover.
- Remove retaining ring.
- Remove back up ring.
- Remove oil seal.
- Clean the faces of the extended stub shaft.
- Plug the hose fitting on the inlet side.
- Remove the oil seal by blowing compressed air through the hole in the outlet side.
- Remove lock nut.
- Remove the adjusting screw lock nut and turn the adjusting screw counter-clockwise to remove the preload between the sector gear and the rack piston.
- Remove the top cover bolts and the top cover assembly.
- Holding the top cover stationary, turn the adjusting screw clockwise to raise and free to cover, then remove the cover with O-ring.
- Bring the stub shaft into straight-ahead position. Do not force the sector shaft off the gear box with a hammer or other impact tools then remove sector shaft.
- Remove ball-nut and valve housing assembly.
- Always keep the ball-nut and valve housing assembly in a horizontal position to prevent them from traveling to the end of the worm shaft and damaging the ball tubes.
- Remove O-ring.
- Remove seal ring.
- Remove O-ring.
- Remove gear box.