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Steering Gear: Disassembly

  1. Remove valve body from housing. Loosen dust boot clamps. Pull dust boots back away from cylinder barrel. Bend back the tie rod lock washer tabs. Using a 19 mm wrench to hold the rack and a 17 mm wrench on the tie rod, remove tie rod from rack.
  2. Push rack into cylinder to protect rack from scratching. Using Lock Nut Wrench (07916-SA50001 ), loosen rack guide screw lock nut. Remove rack guide screw, spring and rack guide.
  3. Remove 4 dust seal cap bolts. Remove dust seal cap. Remove 28 mm snap ring from bottom of housing. Working from top of pinion shaft, use a drift and mallet and lightly tap pinion shaft from housing.
  4. Remove snap ring from pinion shaft. Using a bearing puller, remove bearing from pinion shaft. Remove 4 cylinder-to-gear housing bolts.
  5. Remove cylinder, rack bushing and spring from housing. Pry out cylinder end seal. Remove cylinder barrel, seal retainer, cylinder cap and steering rack from housing.
  6. Remove "O" ring and retainer washer from gear housing. Remove snap ring. Remove pinion holder and bearing from gear housing.
  7. Remove cylinder barrel and seal retainer from steering rack. Remove "O" ring, snap ring and cylinder cap from seal retainer. Remove "O" rings from cylinder cap.
    NOTE: There are 2 types of back-up rings used in the seal retainer. The Brown back-up ring has no slit. The White back-up ring has a slit. Always replace with correct color code.
  8. Remove rack bushing "B", back-up ring and end seal from seal retainer. Using a small screwdriver, carefully pry off piston seal ring from steering rack. Remove "O" ring from steering rack.
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