ninety3CTD

I just installed my Borgeson steering shaft the other day and my steering box started pissing out fluid from the input shaft seal immediately after I took it for a quick drive to see how the steering was with the new shaft...I'm pretty sure that I didn't touch or puncture the seal at all while installing the shaft so the only thing I can think of is that the new shaft is pulling the input/ splined shaft on the box to one side allowing fluid to escape...my entire wheel well is soaked in power steering fluid now and it is making a huge mess everywhere. I tried a bottle of Lucas power steering stop leak but it just pours out too...anyone else had this problem? I guess the first thing I can try to fix it is a new seal kit...

Ace

Did you hammer out the roll pin without wedging a block of wood or something behind the shaft while you were hitting it?

ninety3CTD

Good point...I didn't have anything behind it

Ace

Time to change that seal, then. There's a sticky covering it pretty well. Probably not a bad idea to change it anyway, depending on mileage.

ninety3CTD

Can't find the sticky on it...

wannadiesel

It's in there now.

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Nathan

I had this happen to mine a while back as well. Only thing was I was 225 mi from home and 225 mi from college. And by the time it got to a dealer they had to replace the entire steering box due to it being junk. So I would suggest not driving it until its fixed.

ninety3CTD

Soo...I went to change the seal last night and when I removed the set screw on the bottom of the shaft I noticed that I had drilled into the input shaft too far and it is hollow inside and it looked like that was where the fluid was leaking from and not the seal...so I went ahead and put the new seal in and put it all back together and sure enough fluid was still going pee pee(for the little sensiteve girls) out of that hole even with the set screw turned tightly into it. Now I have to try to find a new input shaft, which isn't sold seperately.

Ace

Drilled the input shaft? ***??

ninety3CTD

yeah, to make a little spot for the set screw to "set" into...had I known that the stupid thing was hollow I would have been more careful.

ninety3CTD

This is from the instructions I followed, only I went a tiny bit too far...

you need to provide a spot in the steering splines for the setscrew in the U-Joint.

To accomplish this I decided to put the shaft completely on and tighten down on the setscrew ever so slightly to get an impression in the splines. I then took the u-joint off and took a drill and drilled into the splines about a 1/8 of an inch (See Fig. 6)

Ace

Nooooo, no no no. Provide a "spot," not a "hole." That means use like a file or a dremel to make a small, flat spot. You're gonna have to replace that steering box if you can't find some way to get it sealed up.

ninety3CTD

well that's not what those instructions said so I went ahead and used a drill, but just ended up making too deep of a spot because I never would have thought the shaft was hollow...someone should make a note on those instructions saying to be very careful not to go more then 1/16" into the shaft, just so this doesn't happen to anyone else. I have an early 80s D 150 that I'm going to see if I can borrow the shaft from, if it won't work then I'll try to find an old steering box at the auto wreckers tomorrow. I won't have to replace the whole box...I can always order the valve assembly which comes with a new shaft if I have to, I already looked it up and priced it out and I'l get it for cost because I work at a dodge dealer.