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Originally Posted by Oak
Nice work Steve! Put the cam follower in a drill press or regular drill and take a grinder and dress it up. It doesn't need to be perfect. Here is one that I did and it worked fine.
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Chunk that plastic piece in the garbage and get a used front wheel bearing or most hardware stores sell cheap bearings in the nut and bolt section. I think it's 1 3/8 OD but measure to be sure. Gonna be a nice little unit when you get done.  |
Todd he's working on a Cyclops, the plastic piece is fine on these steering box's. They have a CV joint just above that bushing so they don't get any side to side load.
Steve fix or replace the follower as Todd mentioned, replace to 2 ball bearings and the foam seal. You can make a seal out of closed cell foam. I have a roll of this stuff so this is what I use.
http://www.lowes.com/pd_13281-236-10...=50071521&pl=1