Any Tips on Replacing Power Steering Gearbox?

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Mine is leaking and I'm going to replace it this weekend. I know I have to remove the pressure lines, loosen the belt pulley, remove a few bolts that secure the bracket to the engine and at some point use a pittman puller to remove the pulley from the shaft.

Anything else I should know that might help prevent turning a 2-3 hour job into a weekend nightmare?

1986 7.4 liter 2500 2wd
 
why would you need to remove the belt or pump?
Simple remove the pitment arm frist then hoses then the sterring shaft and last the three bolts going threw the frame.

Reinstall in rerverse order
 
I stand corrected. I was thinking I also was going to remove the pump.

Anyway, it took 20 minutes to remove the four bolts from the frame, the two hoses from the gearbox and about 5 minutes to remove the pitman arm using the pulller.

I then I tried to reverse the process and could not get the splines to line back up in the pitman. I got the splines on the steering shaft to line up but for some reason I couldn't the pitman back on. So, I decided to remove the pitman from the center link. I figured if I could separate the pitman from the center link, I could play with lining it up and once pressed back on, I could easily bolt it back on to the center link.

5 hours later, I can't get the pitman separated from the center link. I used a "fork" and pounded it with a BFHammer with no luck. Then I put the air hammer to the fork....nothing. WTF ?? :mad:

Going to tackle it again tomorrow. Maybe I'll try to use the pitman puller that I used to separate it from the gearbox to try and separate it from the center link....

Any tips? I've PB blasted the hell out of it..

Looks like the weekend horror is beginning.
 
OK. Pitman arm successfully removed from center link. Used a tie rod puller and popped it off in 3 minutes. Got the gearbox back in and on. Tomorrow I'll put the arm back on the center link and put the ps fluid in.

How do you "bleed" that system or is it just a matter of filling it up and turned the wheel lock to lock and adding fluid as needed?
 
Dang it. I can not get the arm to line up with both the gear box and the center link AND get the spline to match up. If I tun the wheels it raises/lowers the center link but puts it just out of reach of the opening on the pa.

What a pain....
 
center the sterring box bolt on pitment arm then put in drag link. It's simple really as long as you have the RIGHT box.
 
Got it. I needed to have someone turn the steering wheel, while I turned the wheels left and right, in order to line in up. Don't ask me how it got "unaligned"..... I must have dinked with it after I removed it....:rolleyes:
 
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