Just wanted to go ahead and follow up on this. Washers worked! No doubt body shims would have been easier on a one man job, but I had some help. The replacement gearbox was indeed a Cardone reman, but it worked, and the steering was not much heavier or rougher when I got done. I rebuilt the...
Awesome, thanks. I had read about shimming the steering gearbox, but this just seemed really far off alignment to me. I'll see if I can find some 1/8th inch thick washers unless there's a shim kit of some sort.
Hello, new to the forum and haven't seen this sort of issue posted yet.
I recently got a replacement steering gearbox from a parts store after pulling my old one and turning it in for the core charge. This new gearbox appears to be for something newer like an 80's New Yorker perhaps, but the...