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Rack Assembly: Disassembly

  1. Clean rack and pinion housing. Drain assembly of fluid. Remove clips attaching bellows to tie rods and fold bellows back, exposing tie rod inner ball joint.
  2. Straighten lock tab of tie rod inner ball joint. Remove tie rods from rack by loosening lock nut on inner ball joint. Note position of pinion housing-to-valve cylinder pipes. Remove pipes. Remove air transfer pipe.
  3. Remove Allen screw from end cap. Remove locking ring from end housing. Remove end housing. Remove rack plunger lock nut, adjusting nut, spring and plunger. Remove pinion housing cover. Remove pinion housing from rack housing.
  4. Remove pinion from pinion housing. Remove snap ring, washer and seal from pinion housing. Remove rack from rack housing. Remove porting adapter and slide porting ring along cylinder until feed hole is exposed.
  5. Using a scribe, pry seal until seal can be removed from cylinder with a hooked wire. Remove all seals, "O" rings and sleeves from rack housing.
NOTE: DO NOT remove seals from pinion piston.
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