Sector bushing removal question
 

I’m currently rebuilding my 7 tooth steering box and I’m looking for some advice on removing the old sector bushings. They are in a through bore and I’m wondering if the Bratton’s bushing installation tool can be used to push them both out at the same time from the same side. The 2 tooth box uses the same bushings so the same situation applies there too. If there’s a different trick it would be good to know before I try it.

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I would imagine the tool would be capable of removing them and also installing them. I made my own tool. Here’s a video I made quite a few years ago on the seventh tooth doing all this with the steering box still in the car. Hopefully it might help you.
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=...1kpxH2TLliMjIX

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Those videos are very helpful. I’ll also be tightening up my 7 tooth in the near future.

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Bratton's says: "Use this handy tool to help remove and install the sector bushings in both 7 and 2 tooth steering boxes."

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Thanks for the link and all of the videos. Very helpful on what needs to be done to get the sector shaft bushings out and the new ones installed. I am going to rebuild a new box I picked up at Hershey so it is already “out” of the car. Did your sector shaft just fit in without reaming or hoaning the new bushings? I could see if you used the old sector shaft that had a little wear reaming may not have been needed. Thanks again.

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Yes once I press the bushings in the old sector shaft slid right in my sector shaft when I miked it was only worn a few tents but the bushings were obviously large enough I did not need to hone or ream them.

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I don’t know what they are selling now for sector bushings but is they don’t need reaming or honing I doubt the fit will be good for long,the bushings I was sold a while ago were AA kingpin bushings that the sector fit in without any fitting and the contact points were a very low percentage of the bushings surface area.

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I remember I purchased them from Snyder's and I was wondering the same thing if they would need to be honed or reamed after installed they fit snug but definitely no tight spots and there was no looseness.

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i have changed 7 tooth sector bushings (along with all the other parts in there) on three occasions. two of those 3 bushings needed to be honed a tiny bit to fit nice.
someone mentioned tightening up their 7 tooth. note, there is no adjustment on the 7 tooth box that will tighten it up. the only way to make it right is to start replacing parts.

the 2 tooth is a different story.

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Yeah, by “tightening up” I meant that I would be dumping hundreds of dollars into parts and time with the machine shop, just to slap a band-aid on a poorly designed piece of technology. Also, there are some tolerances that can be adjusted via shims and the lash screw, so it technically doesn’t have “no adjustment” it is just a lost cause once things start to wear inside.

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My $.02, I find the seven tooth steering box much easier to rebuild satisfactorily than diddling with the later two tooth. Your mileage will vary.