So my stock box was developing a lot of slop in it over the last few years and this year I finally decided to replace it with a new box with the faster ratio.
Well I've tried out 3 different boxes, 2 remanufactured and 1 from a Jeep in the junkyard that seemed fine there, but on the car all of them have had a pretty bad dead spot.
I know it's not in the steering shaft or the rest of the steering system, I can turn the input shaft on the box and watch as nothing happens to the pitman arm at all until you get it out of the dead spot.
I have also tried to adjust the 2 bolt/nuts on each one. The first two that adjustment was pretty much maxed out. On the third one all of the adjustments I did just made the box harder to turn and didn't get rid of any of the slop.
I'm now looking at the Borgeson 800 box that seems like a pretty good upgrade and it's also not a remanufactured part
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Are there other good options that are better than the stock design though? The steering box seems like a pretty dated heavy design. It'd be really cool to get a rack and pinion in here, it'd use less space, save weight, and I've never had an issue with slop in a rack and pinion.
I've read somewhere that a Borgeson 600 box would fit and that sounds like an even better upgrade than the 800, but I haven't been able to find a part number that I can tell would fit for sure. From what I read the 600 is built a lot like a rack and pinion.
Well I've tried out 3 different boxes, 2 remanufactured and 1 from a Jeep in the junkyard that seemed fine there, but on the car all of them have had a pretty bad dead spot.
I know it's not in the steering shaft or the rest of the steering system, I can turn the input shaft on the box and watch as nothing happens to the pitman arm at all until you get it out of the dead spot.
I have also tried to adjust the 2 bolt/nuts on each one. The first two that adjustment was pretty much maxed out. On the third one all of the adjustments I did just made the box harder to turn and didn't get rid of any of the slop.
I'm now looking at the Borgeson 800 box that seems like a pretty good upgrade and it's also not a remanufactured part
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Are there other good options that are better than the stock design though? The steering box seems like a pretty dated heavy design. It'd be really cool to get a rack and pinion in here, it'd use less space, save weight, and I've never had an issue with slop in a rack and pinion.
I've read somewhere that a Borgeson 600 box would fit and that sounds like an even better upgrade than the 800, but I haven't been able to find a part number that I can tell would fit for sure. From what I read the 600 is built a lot like a rack and pinion.
