Rebuilding a Power Steering Box

[erik70rt]

How difficult is it to rebuild a power steering box?  Or would I be better off sending it out?  And if so, who do you recommend to do it?

[Mr Cuda]

It is not that hard.
 It's mostly o rings,  and keeping track of everything on dis assembly.
 Taking it apart yourself allows you to inspect.  I have taken ones apart that didn't work well to find huge scores in the piston wall. So junk case,  as there's no fix.
 Shop manual covers it pretty well.
 Hardest part is centering the control valve.
 I find the factory non bearing ones to be tighter on the pitman shaft. The small torrington bearings have slop by nature.
 Firm feel 3rd bearing solves this now.

[EV2RTSE]

I would suggest Firm Feel, if only to go with the stage 2 or 3 upgrade, loses the overboosted feel these cars had originally. They'll send you a rebuilt one, I was given a choice of date codes even, and then you send yours back as a core in the box the new one comes in.

https://firmfeel.com/collections/power-steering/products/copy-of-rebuilt-power-steering-gear-small-sector-stage-2-modern-street

[toadstool]

^-... Hardest part is centering the control valve...-^

word. This is very sensitive on it's placement. a 30 thousands of and inch movement on this creates a huge difference. Very careful on this. You might try a metal scribe around this before removing since anything else will go away on the cleaning. I destroyed my steering gear cover during disassembly and found one on epay. make sure you soak everything days before you take it apart. Take lots of pictures I got my kit (70 cuda) from parts geek $80

For 1970-1972 Plymouth Cuda Steering Gear Rebuild Kit 23841BX 1971