Power Steering Gear: Disassembly
- Thoroughly clean the exterior of gear with solvent. Hold gear upside down over a drain pan and turn worm shaft back and forth several times to drain fluid, then secure gear on a work stand.
- Remove pitman arm nut and using puller (49 0223 695D), remove pitman arm. Remove sector shaft adjusting screw lock nut. To center the gear, turn worm shaft until identification mark is in the position shown in Fig 1 .
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- Remove side cover attaching bolts. Tap lower end of sector shaft with soft hammer to loosen, then remove cover and shaft as an assembly. Turn side cover counterclockwise to remove cover from adjusting screw.
- Remove adjuster plug lock nut, then loosen, but do not remove the adjuster plug. Unscrew valve housing attaching bolts and remove valve housing and worm shaft as an assembly from steering gear housing.
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- Stand valve body and piston on end with piston end down. Rotate worm shaft counterclockwise out of the piston letting the ball bearings drop into the piston. Turn the piston upside down and catch the 26 balls in a container. Unscrew ball guide cover screws, then remove cover and ball guides.