Thread: 98 110 Steering box

wow, thats a big hole for a little bolt

The old box is out. Ill need to pick up the 2 O Rings for the Hyd fittings in the morning. The hardest parts were: Undoing the hyd fittings (which lead to the awesome cut on my thumb) Having to Modify the inner guard where its ment to have scallops around the steering box bolts, needless to say they didnt line up with no chance of getting a socket on those top 2 bolts. And getting the uni off the steering box input shaft....this should be done prior to trying to remove the box. Infact if you undo the pinch bolt on both the bottom unis, it allows you to slide the uni up the square section shaft. (I was following RAVE prior to figuring this out)....

Im not sure what is different about my rig, but getting the box out from bellow was easy as it fell straight out. I had the panhard and drag link completely removed. These 2 items are very easy to take out and by all accounts saying the box is a bugger to get out with the pitman arm on, Id say take these links out and it will fall in your lap.

is there any preference for reassembling the TRE's in the Drag link etc? do you just make sure the Taper and fitting is nice and clean and dry? or do you lube the taper with something? Oil? Anti-seize?

Does anyone know the correct size O Rings for the 98 4 bolt steering box?

I rang my LR mech and all he said was its not a part they can supply (I was just after the size............) I took the old ones into the bearing shop and got 6mmx2mm and 7mmx2mm. Bit hard to tell as the old ones are compressed out of shape.

Originally Posted by uninformed

..............................Should there be a bush of some sort in the Panhard rod mount??? The tie bar has a cast 13mm bolt that passes through a 23mm hole in the mount (WTF???) .............or is this "production line tollerence"???....................

Are you saying that the hole in the upper Panhard rod mount is 25mm on both sides ? Should be 13mm same as the HT bolt that goes through. On mine the HT bolt was worn and on the inside of the rearmost mounting flange there was a fair sized 'divot' worn into the casting by the obviously harder Panhard rod inner sleeve. Perhaps yours has worn all the way through . Or have I mis understood your question ?

Deano

Nah Deano, not the Panhard rod itself (btw mine has M14 bolts so it wont be a 13mm hole )

The tie bar that attaches to the steering box and to the panhard rod mount has a theaded end as part of its casting, this is 13mm dia, the hole it passes through in the panhard rod mount is 23mm....The panhard rod mount is the big thick cast section that bolts to the outside of the front chassis rail. The bolts are top and bottom of rail. It hanges down and picks up the tie bar just above the panhard rod.

I have been informed by Ben, and another, this is factory LR, ie they just gave themselves a little tollerence for producition line fitting must be for when the tea runs out......

ok, I know you have all said this at some point, but someone at Sollihul needs a belting! How painful is it re-fitting the first (14mm) hyd line. This is the metal hard line that attaches closest to the front of vehicle. With its proximity to the factory fitted hard line and the fact that the pipe itself must line up true and square in all directions is a joke. Given the easy last fitting is rubber hose right up to the fitting.........my hard line needed so much twisting to in 2 directions I had to clamp some vice grips to it, which I HATE doing. And then with the force of holding it and the fiddliness, there was no way I had any "feel" for the union nut threading in. It would have been very easy to bugger this up and cross thread it. Its already a hard enough spot to get good feel. I can only hope I have it fitted properly and it wont leak..

Im going to do a bit of a search around and customise a couple of spanners for this area. I wont use them much but when I need to they will be there.

I cleaned all my bolts on a bench grinder wire wheel, along with the TRE in the drag link (swivel end)

I drilled,tapped and fitted a grease nipple to the TRE that comes fitted to the pitman arm.

well im really ****ed now. I just filled the resevior up and started the engine. Topped it up as the level dropped. When it settled I started to look around. Straight away I found my first leak. I thought it was the 14mm hyd feed line to the steering box (at the steering box) as I had trouble getting it nice and true when fitting. But NO, its the return line leaking, and not from the fitting but from where the metal pipe is press fitted into the rubber hose......

So now I have to remove that line and get something made, which means I loose my fluid $$$