Thanks. I didn't think of the spring bushings. I have looked at sway bars but I
thought I would repair first. I did tighten the box according to the manual and
it is as tight as I can get it, so something else is loose.
James Zorn
zorn...@sbcglobal.net
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From: ccpanel <ccpa...@yahoo.com>
To: old-chevy-truck@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sun, January 2, 2011 2:22:31 PM
Subject: [old-chevy-truck] Re: Loose steering
do steering box last-its hardest to rebuild, least likely to be cause and
hardest to do.
do all spring bushings, check king pins, do all other linkages on your front
end.
also-buy a stock type front sway bar.
those items in combination will be night/day and you wont need to do steering
box-you did adjust-did you do it strictly according to shop manual
specifications?
you have a shop manual-right?
Mark
--- In old-chevy-truck@yahoogroups.com, JZ <zorn...@...> wrote:
>
> One of my winter projects is fixing the loose steering on my 54 Chevy 1/2 ton
> now that I am on the road and running legal. I tightened the steering box
> screw
>
> and greased the front end, packing all the fittings completely. Put the front
> end up and looked for any obvious loose fitting parts. I went from about a
> 1/3
> turn play to about 1/6 play turn but still not what I call really safe. My
> next
>
> step seems to be rebuilding the steering box. Is it worth replacing the tie
> rod
>
> ends, drag link and king pins. The tie rods are original type and aren't they
> a
>
> bit*h to get out? Any advise from someone that's been down this road? Should
> I
> take it to have it aligned and have them tell me what wrong?
>
> James Zorn
>
> zorn...@...
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
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