VCCA Home Forums TECHNICAL - 1945 AND EARLIER 1933-1936 Rebuild my 34 Master Steering Gear

This winter I am going to remove and have the steering gear rebuilt. I have done the three adjustments in the 1934 repair manual and reduced the play to something like 6 inches which I still do not like. So it seems the best solution is to bite the bullet and pull the unit out of the car.
The manual tells me that I need to remove the brake pedal from the pedal shaft. This is probably to give more wiggle room to drop the shaft down through the frame. Anyone know how high I may need to jack up the front of the car to get it out?
In looking at the parts list book, I have purchased the correct pitman shaft, thrust bearings for the worm shaft and upper mast jacket bushing. The thing that kind of bothers me is that I have no idea of what the wear is on the worm and I have never seen one listed on ebay or any place else.
So I guess I will see what comes and what comments my local machine shop will have when we get it all apart. I “Do Not Like Driving The Car With That Much Play”.
I would be interested in any comments you fellows might have. If you like my email address is “arlenenkieth@aol.com “.

If all else fails you can put a Thunderbird R&P on the car...

Anyway, my experience with 1948 to 1953 Chev (and C1 Corvettes) worm and roller sets is that the worm is hard as nails, and probably won't be worn. I have seen them chipped in which case, it is toast, but the wear should be on your sector shaft or roller/pitman shaft , whichever your box has, and most likely it is just the bushings that need to be replaced if it is roller.

Doug

I rebuilt my 35 Master last year. The Bushings were wore out, looks like they were Brass but I replaced the whole unit.

Having assisted in rebuilding one about four years ago, here
is my recollection. I seem to recall that removing the strg
wheel first allowed ample room to remove the assy from inside
the car; once on the workbench, the rest was easy as decribed
in the shop manual. I also recommend filling the box with
multi-vis chassis lube before re-installing unit. Hope this
helps!

I filled my box with John Deere Corn Head grease, not east to find.

The 34 master sector shaft is on ebay fairly regularly, and your right the worm part is never listed for sale.

mike

Chassis will not flow to the outer bushing. That is the main reason that the outer bushing is almost always worn. Use a high viscosity but flowable lubricant. Keep leaking down while lubing the gears, bearings and bushings.

Obviously you meant "Chassis grease".

As a Farmer I can attest to the goodness of Corn Head Grease. John Deere makes along with Case International Harvester many of the "old time" lubes we can use.