LongDuck

Looking at rebuilding my PS box (not the pump, the box itself) and trying to see how hard it will be to remove. Looks like several bolts through the DS frame rail and that it should pull down and away from the steering shaft. Any retaining bolts, pins, or such which will need to be removed? Any need to take out the steering tube as one assembly? Prior model years look like a PITA.

Hopefully this will solve my pressure leak and I'll have my pS back up and running. Thanks,

KansasCityREPU

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There is a connection near the firewall on the interior. I believe it's 3 or 4 bolts that hold a circular disc that has rubber on it. I took one apart a few months back and didn't know about this connection. I have it all apart so I can take some pictures and post.

LongDuck

Man, that would really help me out. Thanks!

peejay

There's a 12mm-head pinch bolt at the bottom of the column/top of the box. Well, two actually as there is a coupler between the box and column. Remove the pinch bolt, and it will slide right off, for as easily as a 5/8"x36 spline clamp-fit connection that has been together for the past thirty years will slide.

I found it easier to unbolt the column from the dashboard and pull the column off of the box rather than try to pull the box off of the column. You can get a straight pull that way instead of wrestling a heavy-*** steering box while contorting your body to awkward angles. I got to do this TWICE... once when harvesting the power box/column from my '85 before scrapping the shell, and once when converting my '84 to FC suspension, which was a couple years after I put the power box from the '84 in it (about a month after I got the car, WOW the manual steering sucks! Way too slow and light)

LongDuck

Thanks, peejay - hopefully we can get some pictures and I can get a better look at it. If not,mill just dig in and take a few of my own for posterity. Have a good one,

peejay

Don't sweat it. It's REALLY easy.

I just remembered, you access everything from under the dash, not under the hood. There's a kind of bell shaped sleeve over the bottom of the column that you loosen the bolts on and slide up the column.

When I grabbed the power stuff from my '85, I kinda forgot to get the firewall flange that the sleeve camps to, so my '84 always blows cold air up my pants legs ever since converting it from manual. Even in the summer it is cold air. One of these days I'll get around to putting a boot on it, although after THIS many years, if it hasn't been done yet then it isn't getting done, you know?