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03-20-2014, 09:30 PM
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Manual steering upgrade
I'm finally back on upgrading the manual steering in my 982. Basically I am adding a thrust bearing like on the manual steering upgrade for everything else that uses a normal steering box (there were 2 styles on the 982 and the one on mine is larger, can't say about the other version). While it is apart I am changing the seal, wear plate and cam follower. I noticed a bit of bad engineering that I assume is the same on the "usual" steering gearbox. The wear plate with the seal is off to one side of the shaft that the is welded to the plate you hook the steering rod to. When you tighten all this up, there is an air gap between this plate and the gearbox. The wear plate serves as a thrustwasher, but it is way to one side. This is (to me) going to create all sorts of binding and uneven wear. Anyone ever added a shim around the shaft to help compensate for this? The problem is you can't exactly use a washer because the wear plate is very close to the shaft. I am thinking about cutting a large shim but am afraid it will try to rotate and go in behind the wear plate and jam the steering, maybe I could make some tabs on it that would lock on the steering box? Anyone ever contemplated this? I know the design has worked for 40 years, but thats not to say it was done right to start with. If it works I'll post the bearing number, just trying to figure this shim out first. Oh yeah, some machining required.
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