4000 PS control valve HELP

First let me say I've read the book and followed others various PS post over the last few month. Even with all that I still did the don'ts. I remove the control valve being careful not to let plungers etc. not to fall out and carefully set it aside looking back at the steering gear I notice the bottom large race is missing so I go back and look at the bottom side of the control valve and see the race stuck to the control valve. I lift it gently to remove the race and you can guess what happens. Thing start falling out try to catch them until every thing fall out. At least I had it over a flat box with a shop towel in it. But now I don't know which bore the plungers came out or the reaction plunger came out and whether the inside groove on the valve is up or down. Trying not to be long winded here are my questions

1 Am I SOL?

2 If not is the groove on the valve toward top or bottom?

3 lookin at the pic which bore does the reaction plunger anti cavitation valve go in?
top call 12 o'clock going clockwise, 5 o'clock, 7 and 10 o'clock

4 is there only one ball in the reaction plunger anti-cav valve assy.
pic was taken prior yo removal of the control valve.

thanks in advance. Any and all help appreciated

Go to top of page and type in power steering control valve. Click on search and when it pops up again click search again. It will pull up old posts on the subject. Just take your time on the job even if you have to walk away and come back to it. I put seals in one and thought I did something wrong so took it apart again, nothing wrong. There is a post on here from someone that has pretty much all you need to know and he has pics of where everything goes back in and how it goes back. Maybe someone can remember who, hes on here pretty regular.

you might want to put 800 0r 2000 or 4000 in there too

The tractor: a 1960 841 with factory power steering. The problem: the pressure line from my pump to the steering column cracked around the inverted flare fitting on the column. This was the second time the inverted flare end broke right by the flare. I rebuilt the pump a couple years ago with new seals and re-assembled it, so I suspected an issue with the steering column/control valve. I took the column apart, and determined that I might be missing a spring. The unit has been apart before. I have the six little cylinders and three centering springs. I also have the two plungers and two check balls. There was no spring between these two plungers. Should there be? I can see the two plungers differ (left one has a tapered neck, the right one has a straight neck), but which one goes on top? on bottom? The shop manual doesn't go into this detail. The drawing may show that the curved neck plunger is on the top side. Also, should the check ball in the return port move? Help!! I should have been more careful when it came apart.

That last one was a Quote from shagg77 i think. How about it y'all, how many balls between the centering plungers. CNH partstore says one ball. Is it one or two balls. Also shagg77 said that the horned centering plungers are different top and bottom. OP if you look up shagg77 he has a pic also.

Thank you riverboat for the reply. I found the pic in the archives. As I said when mine fell apart it was over a cardboard box with a shop towel so I don't think I lost anything but thee was only one ball in the reaction valve. Also I did some CSI. I was able to enlarge the pic I had taken and noted some minute scratches on valves pool and using a jewelers loop matched thing up, seem the valve may have been in upside down also. I could tell in its previous life someone else had been in there. Makes me think it may have been incorrectly assembled. Thanks again

Also sorry for the riverboat instead of riverordrat My apologies. Been a long day

I would check in tomorrow. I looked up the horned plungers on CNH partstore and it showed one ball but it also showed just one plunger. It may be 1 ball with 1 plunger. So 2 balls 2 plungers. After I resealed mine I think i lost a ball. It steered perfect before I worked on it. Now it steers hard to left. I will tear into it again I guess.

Look at the photo.
Note the extra fitting at the top. Set your valve so that fitting is at about 2:00 oclock position.
When you reassemble, set your lower bearing in place. Then set the block in place.
Note the pencil.
In that hole install one special plunger horns up. Then 2 balls. Then the other special plunger horns down. The other 3 holes get an ordinary plunger, then a spring, then another ordinary plunger.
Follow your manual for the procedure to tighten and stake the nut.

Make sure the 2 balls are captured in the special plungers, not rolling around in the valve casting!