C C Problem

I just started my 1937 CC for the first time since last fall; it started on the 2nd or 3rd quarter turn of the crank. It has been sitting in my yard for 3 or 4 years and now I cannot turn the steering wheel at all; what gives?
 
I am sure a bearing is rusted up on it. I have a problem shifting my CC after it sits for a long time. Once oil gets thrown back up on the shifter it loosens up again.

Last year I started my CC for the first time in a little less than a year and it wouldn't move! The engine would die as soon as I would engage the clutch. The left bearing froze up on the belt pulley shaft. I ended up having to replace the bearing.
 
Tom,

As you know my experience is more with DC's, but we had a CC when I was a kid. Those steering shafts going into the steering gear case can catch a lot of water and I would guess your problem is with the worm gear either through a bad bearing and it got centered over the gear or rust, but that's just a guess. Does it freeze where you are? Do you see any movement on the "chicken roost" when you attempt to steer it? If so, the front end could be frozen up, but if there is no movement at all on the crank arm coming out of the box that's where your problem probably is. LOL! Do you have wide or narrow front?
 
Ted, you mirror my thoughts on this. I'll disconnect the chicken roost this morning and see what happens.

It is a narrow front which I bought 18 years ago this fall. It has been fairly trouble free other than a carburetor problem prior to this.
 
It took all morning and a trip to the machine shop for heat and press work but we got it freed up. All he charged me was $35.00 for about an hour's work; pretty good deal. and he stopped what he was working on to do it.
 

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