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[mcbassin]

Originally Posted by 69cunningham

I’ve worked on a couple of other parts while waiting for the frame to come back from powder coating. The rear end and the steering box have been disassembled, cleaned and sand blasted. I bought a rebuild kit for the steering box. There have been problems installing it. First, the Teflon seals need to be stretched slightly to fit around the piston and control valve. They stayed too big and made it difficult to install the parts in the case. The other problem was the ball bearings in the recirculating ball rack. I thought I found all of them, there were 11 silver and 11 black. Online I’ve found reference to 24 and 26. It seems I am short a few. I have enough to fill the rack, but none for the cross over tube. I’m not sure what to do. I may end up with a new AGR box. I don’t want to have issues with my steering.

I'm pretty sure 11 and 11 on the ball bearing is correct. I did a complete overhaul on mine a while back. It was a pain to get it assembled but it works great now. I'm really happy with the steering on my truck. I did refer to (Saginaw 800 Power Steering Gear Box Part 5 ) on youtube many times while I was overhauling mine. I ended up using a piece of fuel line to keep the balls seated while I meshed the ballscrew in the assembly.

Nice progress on the truck BTW.