I have been putting off replacing the bushings in the steering
cross-tube on the Series II because I believed you needed to take the
motor out to do the job. Yesterday afternoon I decided to have a go at
it anyway, and here's how it came out:
1. Loosen & remove the links joining the tie-rod pair on each side.
2. Remove the pitman-arm nut from the steering box output shaft.
3. Remove the bolts mounting the steering box to the frame and pry the
box away from the frame a bit so you can install the pitman-arm puller.
4. Pop the pitman arm off the steering shaft.
5. Remove the bolts holding the pivot-plate assembly (whatever it's
called) to the frame on the passenger side.
6. Though it doesn't exactly fall out, at this point you can pull the
whole assembly out from the passenger side. I had to make several trips
from side to side, twisting, and positioning, and pulling and pushing,
but in the end it all did slide out without scraping too much paint.
After I get it all cleaned up and painted, I expect to be able to put it
back in pieces:
1. Put pitman arm back on steering box.
2. Put pivot-plate assembly back on passenger side.
3. Reattach cross-tube.
Oh yea, one small "problem" with the bushings. The original bushing in
my tube were a two-piece metal/rubber affair, sort of like a leaf-spring
eye bushing. The bushings I got from Sunbeam Specialties were just
rubber. It was pretty obvious that they weren't going to go into the
tube unless I could press out the metal part of the old bushing. And
I'm here to tell you that those pieces did not/do not want to come out.
After several failed attempts, I went out to the shed and popped a tube
off a Series IV steering assembly. The bushings in it were
one-piece/rubber, and the new bushings went into that tube,
lickety-split!
Ramon
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