Archived steering shaft

[shendren]

i am trying to get the intermediate steering shaft out. i am putting in a borgeson. the bolts at each end are loose but the shaft is not budging? thanks for any help. scott.

 

[Extreme1]

Turn the shaft so that you can see (and get access) to the split in the part of the sheft that slips over the steering box input shaft and the lower steering column shaft. You need to completely remove the bolts to get the intermediate shaft off but I needed to stick the end of a lerge screwdriver into the split and twist it to get the parts loose on the shafts.



Be sure to keep the steering wheel from turning with the intermediate shaft out. If the Borgeson is like my Flaming River shaft, it doesn't have the clamp bolt like the stock shaft to line it up. If you let the wheel turn, you will have to re-center it by popping one end of the shaft off. Also, by turning the steering column extra turns from home in either direction, you might damage the wiring from the steering wheel controls (can't remember what it's called).



Hope this helps!

 

[fishjack1]

Don't know if this may help but here's my 2 cents:



When I installed my Borgeson shaft my stock shafts slip joint had frozen up. This is where the slides together to allow movement over bumps etc.

It would not slide inside itself to allow me to remove it so I took a sawzall and cut the old one off.



After I cut the stock one off I put it (the cut stock unit) in a bench vice and even with some encouragement from a hammer still would not slide. I now remove my Borgeson shaft about once a year and apply grease to it's slip joint to prevent this from happening again.

Good Luck