steering box rebuild
 

In the process of rebuilding my 55 steering box. Factory manual says to use T52L-3526-Bad to remove sector shaft bearings and T52L-3526-AAD to install bearings. From the picture it looks like bearings are removed out the sector arm end of the housing but not enough detail to see how. Does anyone know how these bearings are removed and replaced? Does anyone know where one could find these two tools?
Thanks in advance.
Ben

Re: steering box rebuild
 

Is it possible to scan and post here (attach) the page(s) you are referring to?

The tools being described (FOMOCO SPECIAL SERVICE TOOLS) are most likely period specific and have been upgraded/replaced and more readily available.

Re: steering box rebuild
 

Crown, when all is said and done, I have a question about the upper seal on the box. Is it just a rubber seal or is It a rubber and metal seal? When I purchased the car, I checked fluid levels and the steering box was empty. I filled the box and steering seems to be okay for old car engineering. But, it looks like the upper seal is leaking, I don't want to tear apart the steering column for the seal. If its rubber, I'd rather cut it out...is this possible and install a cut, glued new seal....if it's only a rubber insert. Is it?

Re: steering box rebuild
 

Kultulz- attached are shots of repair book showing tools. Not too descriptive to figure out how they remove and install.

Jwawhite- If the seal you are referencing to is this one, it is a thick felt washer. If the leak is coming out around the plate with the 4 bolts, those are shim packs to adjust bearing pre-load on worm gear.

Re: steering box rebuild
 

If you are talking about the gasket for the top cover, it is a composite material. I doubt anyone could successfully replace one with the gearbox in the car for fear that some little pieces of the gasket might fall down into the gear reservoir. If you need to replace that, I did once by making my own gasket out of layers of cardboard gasket material (for carburators).

The donut shaped fibre gasket seal at the back of the gearbox is intended to keep gear oil from splashing back and leaking out when the car is accelerated from a dead stop. It is doubtful that it is the problem, but if you did need to replace it, the steering column would need to be removed.

Re: steering box rebuild
 

Sorry it took me so long to get back.

They appear to be drive tools. The FORD tools have the driver made to exact bushing size specs (dedicated). Aftermarket tools (bushing and seal driver) have interchangeable heads. You can either buy a drive set or take it to a machine shop and have it done.

The TEXT says nothing about being pressed in or driven in?

I have old FORD SPECIAL SERVICE TOOL CATALOGS. If not in a big hurry, let me try to dig out. A lot of times, you can find these tools on evilBay entering the tool nos. in SEARCH.