stripped sector shaft?

[Jishory]

i have been outside all day with an allen wrench trying to tighten the stud that threads into the top cap and it will not move at all, i can crank it either way till the cows come home but it wont move up or down one millimeter, i have tried pulling it out but it wont budge. anybody else do this before?

 

[Jason4x4]

did you loosen the nut first?

 

[Jishory]

yes the nut is long gone, the cap is also off at this point, im just trying to get the stud threaded in and tight

 

[Hossbaby50]

What exactly are you trying to do? Are you trying to remove the sector shaft? If so take the 4 bolts out around the stud & lift the cap.Make sure the steering pointed straight with the pitman arm removed.

Harley

 

[Jishory]

i had a second steering box where i broke the case so i took the top and tapped it for hydro assist, i replaced the front cap in a few minutes, took the top one off by removing the nut, the stud came with it for a while but then the nuts was off and i twisted off the stock cap, then when i was trying to replace it with the tapped cap i realised that the stud wasnt moving at all

 

[sandawgk5]

Once the nut is off doesn't the sector shaft just come out of the top cap? I thought that stud changed the relation of the sector shaft gear to the worm gear. Essentially setting the backlash of the steering box.

If I am wrong you can kick me in the junk. It is late and I am getting my ass kicked by a Verizon cell phone.

Ira

 

[CDA 455]

Sounds like a personal problem !!

 

[Jishory]

im gonna try it tomorrow again, if it doesnt work ill go get another steering box i guess, im on my 3rd one in the past few months

 

[Leper]

You are screwing it in, not out, right?

 

[Jishory]

Righty tighty lefty loosey right?