Rebuilding a '54 steering gear.

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I few months ago Jwawhite posted about reshimming his gearbox with success. I'm going a step or two farther. I have a gearbox disassembled on my workbench and a box of new parts for it. Both the repair manual and the parts manual show a spacer between the needle bearing packs for the sector shaft. Mine doesn't have one. Of course I have no idea what it's history is. Has anyone else torn one down that might shed some light on this? The bearings are pressed in and I'm pretty sure they won't move, spacer or not.