Removing Steering cylinders from 530

Adirondack case guy

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This question has come up many many times. HOW DO YOU REMOVE THE CYLINDERS. It seams that there is no way, but it is actually pretty easy.
Step 1 pressure wash the area. step 2 put a jack under belly and take weight off front wheels so you can easily turn them without the steering wheel. Step 3 Remove Jesus clip that holds the puck screw in place. There is a reason that it is called a Jesus clip and worse. You can not get a 7/16' socket on the grease jerk with the clip in place, and chances are that you can't attach vise grips to turn out the jerk. 4 Get an O-ring pick out of your tool box and hook the SOB clip and rotate it out so the bow is in front of jerk. 5 clamp vise grips on clip and move it back and forth. One end will come out of hole and then you can remove it. 6 Screw out the puck retaining screw. If you don't have a draglink tool in your arsenal a file or piece of flat stock will suffice to fit in the slots and take the threaded retainer out. 7 Now you have to remove the rear Castel nut. Guess what; the whole ball in the end of cylinder turns!! Luckily there is a slot in the threaded ball and usually a big screw driver with a wrench on it will hold it from turning. 8 Wow, you have it all loose and just unscrewed the hose from the cylinder. Watch out!! at the least little bit you collapse the cylinder it will squirt you with oil. Better have rag handy. Step 9, now that you wiped the oil off your shirt and pants, you find that the brace welded under the wishbone won't let the cylinder come off the riveted ball on the steering sector. Step 10, no you don't take torch and cut bract off the wishbone. Instead, look on back side to the steering sector where the pivot pin is. There is a allen socket set screw with jam nut. Remove it and you should be able to remove the pivot pin with perhaps the aid of vise grips. Step 11, push the sector to the side to allow the cylinder to drop off ball. Step 12 take cylinder to hydraulic shop and let him wrestle out the Jesus retainer inside the port of the cylinder.
Now that was simple and easy wasn't it. HeHe'
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Bro! rolling that clip inside the port is the EASY part takes all of 2 seconds off and on,, you should have called lol LOVED the commentary though,,
cnt
 
I ran into one of those with mashed threads. No tool in my box would get it out when you only have enough room to turn something a 1/4 inch at a time. Not a lot of room to work under there. Finally get ticked enough to go make a tool from a 13/16 socket. Now I can get them out with the zerk still in place if need be. Also, I can put serious torque on it AND spin it with a ratchet to make quick work of it.
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How ironic! I just did one Friday morning. I almost gave up. I was close to washing my hands and calling you guys.

A complicating factor was that one of the balls, which are riveted into that pivot casting, had come loose and dropped down.

I was surprised to find the grease fittings in the ends of the steering cylinders, and in the vertical pivot pin, are pressed in.
 
Those can be a bugger at times I have several sizes of those type sockets in my tool box off the Snap On truck bought them Years ago,, yours looks Great
cnt
 
Great tutorial Loren. I found in my experience that if the set screw on the steering sector breaks off you are required to pull front end off. A jack stand under bellhousing,two bolts in rear and two bolts up front and the whole front end comes right out with forklift under it. Steering cylinder then comes right out the top. Fixing cylinder is a piece of cake if someone had not hit the puck retaining screw with a hammer and punch to tighten it. By the way the Jesus clip is about 25 bucks through Case. CHEAP ! Huh The puck wasn?t bad priced and works better than an incorrect one that someone put in it. Oh the fun of fixing what someone else screwed up. Lol
 
(quoted from post at 22:02:35 08/10/21) how did you get the pictures?????
(quoted from post at 17:19:58 11/26/20) Never mind I got the photos
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Copy & paste for pics.
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Another way is right click on a blank pic box and click on "open image in new tab" on the drop down menu.

Joe
 

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