Saginaw Steering Box Rebuild - Smooth Steering - Four Wheeler
The venerable Saginaw steering box has been in use for many decades and is found on a wide range of four-wheel-drives. We have a Saginaw power-steering box of early-'70s vintage that finally blew a sector-shaft seal and had been weeping fluid for quite a while prior to that. We sourced a rebuild kit from West Texas Off Road, and it included a complete set of seals with a heavy-duty top seal, and the input and output shaft bearings. With the Saginaw steering box removed from the truck, we were ready to dive in. A rebuild can be done with mostly common handtools. In any case, rebuilding a Saginaw steering box requires patience and the assembly of many small parts and seals. For those of you who would rather not rebuild your own Saginaw Steering box, the folks at West Texas can do it for you. If you have any doubt of your ability to rebuild a critical steering component such as this, leave the job to someone who's well experienced. Slide the adjuster plug off the stub shaft and remove the dust seal, oil seal, and needle bearing. The arrow denotes a torsion-bar assembly that opens a fluid bypass when you turn the steering wheel too far to an end point. Source: www.fourwheeler.com
