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Stephen
Ha! Not sure that will catch on but maybe its the next level up - Standard, Special, Ladeedah.
Good advice as always Rob - might end up getting the bushing pressed in and reamed at a local shop, and do the prep and rest of the rebuild myself.ardiesse wrote: ↑Wed May 29, 2024 12:08 pm
Statewide Bearings in Smithfield has replacements for the sector shaft bushes. To remove the old ones, I used an M27 tap to cut threads in the old bushes, and a length of M27 threaded rod, an M27 nut and an old clutch throwout bearing. The new bushes would need to be reamed to size after installation, though. Wear in the sector shaft is something to watch for, but not a complete show-stopper.
If your ball nut has wear marks on the teeth, but is otherwise serviceable, tip it upside-down on reassembly.
And you're hopefully aware of the trick for removing wormshaft bearing races: lay a good-size fillet of weld on the bearing race. When it cools, the race shrinks and drops out.
If the best you can find is a wormshaft with pitting on the thrust bearing faces only (that is, none on the worm), you can get the thrust bearing faces hard-chromed and reground. (Belay that. I've just re-read your post.)
McMaster-Carr in LA stocks the recirculating balls, but you need a business address for shipping.
I'm a sucker for a challenge Clay. But having said that, if I knew of people that I trusted in their workmanship, then I would leave it to the experts. Unfortunately I have been burnt in the past. If I cock it up, I'll only have myself to blame!Errol62 wrote: ↑Wed May 29, 2024 12:50 pm I like to do things myself like you. I bought myself a major overhaul kit for the hydramatic column intended for my van. When I converted the ute to all synchro three speed however, I got Roger Hancock to convert the column. At the same time, he also rebuilt the box. The whole lot cost me $1100 at the time, and it is perfect.
Brett027 wrote: ↑Wed May 29, 2024 6:23 pm The Rares major overhaul kit for FB/EK is actually HR parts I was told by Rares peeps. The pitman shaft supplied doesn't have the recess to take the FB adjuster, but rather uses the bolt for the HR, which in early kits fitted HR boxes but not long enough for FB/EK. The major kit had the balls worm thing etc so was a complete overhaul. Why wouldn't you use it?
The other thing that you said was about welding the column shaft. Have you discussed this with your engineer? My fellow was ardament that the column shaft was not to be welded under any circumstances, hence all the stuff I went through to get the torrie column to work on my ute. I could weld and mod the column anyway I wanted it, but not allowed to make any changes to the shaft. Fortunately the two sections slide so length was not an issue.
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