Sleeve prior to being pressed on
Next shot shows the sleeve with the three inch aluminum sleeve they give you to press it on with. That’s ok on a short shaft but not on a long shaft like that steering column. I found a washer the just fit over the steering shaft and it sat on top of the supplied aluminum sleeve as you see in the picture. Then I used a piece of schedule forty plastic pipe to go on top of that washer. This let me use a plastic mallet to tap the speedy sleeve in place above the steering column. You can see it’s length in the next picture.
Next pic shows the sleeve installed.
This pic shows the old seal after tearing it out. This thing was an absolute #$%^& to get out.
Next two pics show the dash moved just enough so I could get it off the steering shaft. That was no picnic either.
This last picture shows the hole in the back of the dash. Some previous owner used a cut off wheel and cut five or six slots where that hole is. I guess he then bent the tabs out to get access to the hole. I just took a pair of channel locks and grabbed each of those tabs and worked it back and forth until it broke off. This left me with that hole. Without that hole I don’t think I would have been able to get that dash off. It let me look in there and see what needed to be done to get the dash loose. You see the two vertical screws and the two horizontal screws on the back of the dash. These hold the linkage in place. I had to remove all of them. They hold the brackets that hold the linkage in place. Getting them back in place was no picnic either. On the two horizontal ones, the plate that has a spring between it and the dash. So getting a screw started was impossible. What I did was get a longer same size screw and stick it in the hole and get it started in the plate. Then I screwed it in until it brought the plate up against the back of the dash. Then I put the correct screw in the other hole and removed the longer screw and put the correct screw in that hole. The vertical screws were pretty hard to get in also but I managed to do it.
I didn’t remove any of the gauges except the tractometer. That was easy to get out since you don’t have to get inside the dash. I removed the temperature gauge sensor unit from the block to give me some slack there. I also removed the oil pressure line from the block to get some slack. I just slipped the dash off to the side carefully and hoped that I would not kink that oil gauge line. Evidently I didn’t since the oil pressure gauge works again. All in all, I probably put in about ten hours time on the job. Oh, by the way, the speedy sleeve and the new seal stopped the oil leak from the steering shaft. I wouldn’t want to have to do that job again.
Next shot shows the sleeve with the three inch aluminum sleeve they give you to press it on with. That’s ok on a short shaft but not on a long shaft like that steering column. I found a washer the just fit over the steering shaft and it sat on top of the supplied aluminum sleeve as you see in the picture. Then I used a piece of schedule forty plastic pipe to go on top of that washer. This let me use a plastic mallet to tap the speedy sleeve in place above the steering column. You can see it’s length in the next picture.
Next pic shows the sleeve installed.
This pic shows the old seal after tearing it out. This thing was an absolute #$%^& to get out.
Next two pics show the dash moved just enough so I could get it off the steering shaft. That was no picnic either.
This last picture shows the hole in the back of the dash. Some previous owner used a cut off wheel and cut five or six slots where that hole is. I guess he then bent the tabs out to get access to the hole. I just took a pair of channel locks and grabbed each of those tabs and worked it back and forth until it broke off. This left me with that hole. Without that hole I don’t think I would have been able to get that dash off. It let me look in there and see what needed to be done to get the dash loose. You see the two vertical screws and the two horizontal screws on the back of the dash. These hold the linkage in place. I had to remove all of them. They hold the brackets that hold the linkage in place. Getting them back in place was no picnic either. On the two horizontal ones, the plate that has a spring between it and the dash. So getting a screw started was impossible. What I did was get a longer same size screw and stick it in the hole and get it started in the plate. Then I screwed it in until it brought the plate up against the back of the dash. Then I put the correct screw in the other hole and removed the longer screw and put the correct screw in that hole. The vertical screws were pretty hard to get in also but I managed to do it.
I didn’t remove any of the gauges except the tractometer. That was easy to get out since you don’t have to get inside the dash. I removed the temperature gauge sensor unit from the block to give me some slack there. I also removed the oil pressure line from the block to get some slack. I just slipped the dash off to the side carefully and hoped that I would not kink that oil gauge line. Evidently I didn’t since the oil pressure gauge works again. All in all, I probably put in about ten hours time on the job. Oh, by the way, the speedy sleeve and the new seal stopped the oil leak from the steering shaft. I wouldn’t want to have to do that job again.
