Steering box adjustment

[Shane]

Like what has already been stated, it's not something to mess with. Do yourself a favor and just replace it ... but check ALL other steering components first. Chances are it isn't your steering box, it's something else.

Saginaw steering boxes are recipricating ball systems. That means that it is a series of balls that "flow" around a worm gear type shaft. If you have "slop" somewhere around dead center, and you then adjust that slop out, chances are that the steering will be too tight in the areas on the worm gear that has less wear than in the dead center - think full turn left and right. Kinda like trying to make a 1.000" inch ball fit thru a .500" pipe ... it don't work.

I hope that made sense.