Last night, I digged a little deeper into my steering box on my 1250. I managed to tear up the slotted cap at the bottom of the box. I used a drag link socket on a ratchet and damaged the slot (its made of aluminum). Due to the PO never ever greasing this steering box, one of the metal cup/retainers was gone and the other was split in three peices. The retainers for the ball bearings were damaged and one ball missing. The grease worms had their victory with this one! I also notice the plastic cap at the other end of the steering shaft was out of round, so i removed it. It broke too
. Would I be better finding a better steering box?
I want this nightmare to end.