Taking out the steering box?

[ewingeric]

I was just wondering if someone could explain how to take this out. Thanks!

[azygoustoyou]

Disconnect the Intermediate arm and rod ball joint from the pitman arm first. You can take a hammer and hit the top real hard to release them. Be careful not to damage the threads if you plan on reusing them. Take everything off the inside of the steering shaft. Take the nuts off inside the wheel well. Move the Pitman arm which is the arm on the bottom of the steering box all the way in one direction to remove the bolt. Move it the other way to remove the other.

[azruss]

before you whack the ball joints, put a nut on the end of it leaving about an 1/8-1/16" of nut exposed beyond the tread. the nut takes the punishment and not the ball joint. throw the beat up nut away and start with a new one.

[BEEK]

tie rod removal. hit the arm on the steering box right next to the area where the tie rod end goes thru it. not the tie rod end itself. sympathetic harmonic vibration, is the physics term for what happens. it will keep you from destroying your tie rod ends. the "pickeling fork" method destroyes the boot. this also works for ball joints too.