HS108
Diesel Newb
Yesterday I swapped in a new Blue Top Steering gear box and converted to hydroboost (the write up in the Tech articles is amazing BTW)
Everything went pretty smooth, on the hydroboost side of things.
Unfortunately the Steering gear fought me, I marked everything in a line when I took my gear off, I locked my steering wheel in place with the seat belt, But with fluid everywhere, having the bet the snot out of the pitman arm to get it off, I lost my marks.
When I put the gear back in, I may have done it out of order and screwed up Heres how I did it, so I took both boxes side by side and lined up the arm, I installed the new gear box in the truck, I then installed the track bar into the pitman arm, I had to jack up the truck to get the TB into place. Once I got that in place and the wheels straight as possible again (F250 TTB Enough said ) I went to tighten the pitman arm nut, and in doing this I moved the arm to the passenger side when cranking on the nut. I tried to move it back close to center as possible, but who knows. So When I put my steering wheel shaft back on I had to turn the shaft of the steering wheel, to get it to line up.
My question is, now my wheel is off center, will just a simple alignment take care of my steering wheel being off, or worse am I gonna loose turning radius due to the box not being center?
Everything went pretty smooth, on the hydroboost side of things.
Unfortunately the Steering gear fought me, I marked everything in a line when I took my gear off, I locked my steering wheel in place with the seat belt, But with fluid everywhere, having the bet the snot out of the pitman arm to get it off, I lost my marks.
When I put the gear back in, I may have done it out of order and screwed up Heres how I did it, so I took both boxes side by side and lined up the arm, I installed the new gear box in the truck, I then installed the track bar into the pitman arm, I had to jack up the truck to get the TB into place. Once I got that in place and the wheels straight as possible again (F250 TTB Enough said ) I went to tighten the pitman arm nut, and in doing this I moved the arm to the passenger side when cranking on the nut. I tried to move it back close to center as possible, but who knows. So When I put my steering wheel shaft back on I had to turn the shaft of the steering wheel, to get it to line up.
My question is, now my wheel is off center, will just a simple alignment take care of my steering wheel being off, or worse am I gonna loose turning radius due to the box not being center?