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19674x4 · Post by **19674x4** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 4:37 pm

i was checking my power stering fluid yesterday when i pulled on the hoses and my whole steering box moved. so i crawled under neath to do some investigating when ifound that the bolts holding it on were three threads from coming off. and the previous owner must have swapped in another box when he put power stering in it. because there is a piece of metal plate welded into the frame with the steering box bolted to it. and the bolts don't even fit on the box flanges.

fordman · Post by **fordman** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 4:42 pm

i have heard that the stock boxes can come loose. get us a pic of that if you would in case it has or might happen to someone else.

Big D's 69 · Post by **Big D's 69** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 4:47 pm

That is never a good thing.

averagef250 · Post by **averagef250** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 6:06 pm

Someone scabbed a 2wd or 78-79 box on your truck.

ICEMAN6166 · Post by **ICEMAN6166** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 9:54 pm

scary is right and scabbed is a good word for that type of workmanship.any time i find something like that i have to go over the entire truck to see what else might be amiss.

and people ask me how come i get so dirty just looking at a truck for sale.

averagef250 · Post by **averagef250** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 10:09 pm

It's for this exact reason that I take such a hard stance against putting a power box on a highboy. I cannot count how many of these trucks I've inspected that have had a 2wd or 78/79 box added with horrible workmanship. An unsafe steering box is a disaster waiting to happen.

I put the crappy 2wd box on my '70 first thing when I got it. It doesn't fit right no matter what you do. I had to angle it just right so it would clear the leaf spring and barely leave enough room to run a supercool radiator after some cutting. It had the turning radius of a bus so I lengthened the pitman arm to get full steering from the truck. Put about 40K miles on the truck with that steering setup. Every 500 miles I had to re-tighten the bolt clamping the steering shaft joint to the box input. The angle was apparently too steep and the slight bind would work the joint loose on the splines every 500 miles.

19674x4 · Post by **19674x4** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 3:38 pm

i'll try to get a pic tonight. the top of it has two bolts and the FoMoCo writting on it. if that helps?

19674x4 · Post by **19674x4** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 7:50 pm

here's the pics

460 crew · Post by **460 crew** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:07 am

Yep you have the 2wd box mounted in there. here is mine with the 2wd box also with the old inner fender someone already hacked up.

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