99-07 Chevy/GMC Truck Steering Gear Box Installation
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
- 2001 LB7 Duramax | GMC Sierra 3500 Crew Cab Long Bed Dually. Seals blowing out on the OEM steering gear box is a fact of life, especially for trucks that are or near 20 years old. Luckily you can pick up a re-manufactured replacement machined to have tighter tolerances thus making them last longer. As an added bonus they are pretty cheap to replace and do not take a whole lot of time or special tools.
Pick yours up:
🔴Cardone 27-7589 Remanufactured Power Steering Gear: amzn.to/3xboa1i
Puller Kit:
🔴YSTOOL Front End Service Tool Set with Automotive Ball Joint Separator Tie Rod End Puller Pitman Arm Remover 5 PCS Removal Splitter Kit: amzn.to/3PVjDHH
I really appreciate this video. Most videos are done in a pristine shop with no issues. I appreciate someone doing it in their driveway, having a few hangups the same as I will. You didn't cuss as much as I will though.
Thank you for that man. I hear ya on that! This channel is 100% dedicated to the weekend warrior driveway mechanic with a wrench in one hand and a cold beverage in the other 🍻
@KooshdaakaaGarage Thanks for taking your time to help others. I replaced the sterling wheel bushing but my truck still make some noise. May take a look at my sterling box. 2005 Chevy silverado 2500 HD 8.1 gas.
Mahalo🤙…You have been like amazingly very descriptive in ALL that you have done…That’s what I needed to see!
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Gunalcheesh (thank you) my friend! 🍻
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Yes the 5.3 does have it as well that's what I have in my avalanche. Witch thanks for the video as I've never changed one of these yet now I know what to do exactly as soon as I do it
Heck yeah, best of luck. You got this! 🍻
For me it was hard.. harder then installing the front differential... lol
Best video ever!! Thank you so much!!
Thanks for that man, it means alot! Best of luck with your install 😁🍻
Buen video, me va ayudar mucho ahorita que tengo que cambiar esa pieza, no se porque no tienes tantos like si esta mucho mejor que muchos que eh visto, good job bro 😎 tienes un suscriptor más.
Hey thank you for that brotha! I appreciate it :) Best of luck!
Great video. Thank you!
Thank you!
Had the pinion nut come off my truck. Before watching this video i recommend lok tight instead maybe a low level though.
Nice video. I have a 2005 Sierra 1500 Z71 that is leaking too. I will be replacing mine as well sometime this spring. Probably will go ahead and do steering stabilizer at same time.
Thanks man! You're truck will feel brand new after replacing the gear box and stabilizer. I went with the Bilstein stabilizer and 10/10 would recommend. Very smooth turning, great recovery, and handles dirt roads like a champ 🍻
Thank you great job
Thank you!
Great Video! Have a great day Brother!
Logging! Have done alot of that! Awesome Builds! Much appreciated 🏁 lmm in Colorado 🤠 Very informative 👍
Thank you Ronald! You have a great day as well 😁🍻
Thank you amigo thank you thank you.much
No problemo 🤘😁🍻
Nice job man! How’s the steering box? Still tight? Thinking of Cardone but heard a few guys say it took 2 or 3 boxes before they had a tight one. Anyway, Great content man! Engine sounds smooth after all the love you gave her. Happy with everything you did? Anything you wish you did different?
The box is still nice and stiff! I've been overlanding for a the past few weeks and she's holding together nice. The engine is running super smooth, way more power, bottom end grunt, and low egts. Even when I lug 5th gear and get upwards to 1094 degrees, she quickly comes down to 500 or so. I don't think I'd do anything different with Pig but there are definitely things I have lined up to do thatll add to the experience, help with cooling while up in the mountains. All and all she's running really good! I'll do a quick update video on my phone and post it for ya. Thanks man 🍻
This vid be useful to be soon thanks buddy
Thank you for watching! 🍻
Pro job
Man I have to do this for my 05 Chevy avalanche it’s kinda intimidating
It was a bit intimidating for me too man. Once I got in there it wasn't too bad. If you use the same tools I used in the video then it'll make it much easier. Good luck man! 🍻
fantastic job.
Thank you Stephen 🍻
I have an 04 Sierra, after replacing the gearbox with a Blue Top Gearbox and just about a whole front end Kryptonite rebuild my steering still feels way too loose to me. Ive been told by multiple mechanics that, that is just how these trucks are… Ive determined that the play is coming from where the steering column connects to the gearbox. Does this really not have a fix?? Its driving me nuts!
Ah man, yeah that's annoying. Your column is a two piece held together by a 15mm bolt I believe. Can you see or feel play in it? Seems like it could get stretched or loose if subject to lots of stress overtime. Another thing that helped tighten up my steering was installing the bilstein 5100 steering stabilizer. My gear box felt way too easy to turn when I first installed it and it honestly was a little scary to drive. The bilstein is significantly larger and provides more resistance than the oem version. Great for dirt roads and has smooth wheel recover after taking a corner.
I used the same puller and it broke it and bent the main screw bolt all up still didn’t get the arm off lol, idk if I should try a fork or what but this thing is stuck on here
Oh man that sounds like a royal pain. You might have to treat it like a ball joint and give it a little heat, give it some tension with a new puller, give it a few taps with a hammer, little more tension, little more heat, couple more wacks until it pops off. Kind of a pain given how tucked away the pitman arm is but that may be how you have to do it. Good luck!
Great video. Does taking off the pitman arm mess with the alignment or steering wheel center?
Thank you akclan! are you in Southeast? Just curious, I bounce between JNU & POW. Anywho, though there is potential the alignment may be off depending on the difference between make and model of your gearbox and whether or not it was made on a Tuesday or Friday, in theory it should not make much if any difference at all. So long as you find the steering center using the method I show in this video then your steering wheel should be as center as it can get providing your tie rod alignment is also good. All of that said, if your alignment is already straight as an arrow, and you follow the techniques I show in this video then your steering should either be the same or better than it was when you started. Hope this helps, and best of luck! 🍻
Looks like a pain in the ass. Should I just keep adding fluid? I'm worried about the spline thing. Cardone has two version around the same price that look exactly the same, and they both say they'll fit my LLY. Wondering if the difference is the splines, and how do I know which one I have?
It is a bit of pain but 100% doable. Pretty sure you'll have a 3 spline. That seems to be the case most of the time.. the PSC have a 4 spline. You'll be fine to keep the fluid topped for a bit until the seal gets worse. I ran mine like that for a few years 😬
Good job, thank you for sharing your video. Keep making good videos like that and I watch them I subscribe., Take care and be safe. God bless you.
Thank you!
I recently had todo the gear box on my 1999 Chevy Silverado 5.3L following the idea from your video & first want to thank you . The video was great & easy to follow. I notice after my power steering feels really loose (no play just loose) then before .. I don't know if that's normal or if i did something wrong , any idea?
The samething happened to me and you know what it was?? My steering stabalizer was shot 😬 I couldn't tell before with the old gear box because the gear box was so shot it provided resistance where as the new gear box was much stronger with a tight tolerance. I swapped in the bilstein steering stabilizer and bam, problem solved. And to boot the bilstein steering stabilizer also added a faster turn recovery (wheel straightening after you make a turn). I made a install video of that too if you want to check it out. I talk about the very thing you just described 😁🍻 thank you for watching, I hope this helps!
Yeah well probably been leaking since factory installation
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Good video. My question is. I bought a used gear box from a salvage yard. On the shaft of the gear box it has been turned all sorts of ways. How do i know where to position it? To put the steering linkage back on.
Thank you! This is how I centered the gearbox: install your steering shaft onto your new unit. Rotate all the way to the right. Next you are going to rotate all the way to the left. When you rotate to the left count the rotations it takes to get all the way over to the left. Now that you have your rotation count, divide that by 2. Whatever number that comes out to will be the number of rotation back to the right you will want to go. That will be your center. For mine I think the total rotations was right around 3 which put me at 1.5 rotations to the center. Now, when you remove your old gear box it is also important to straighten out your wheels so that the pitman arm lines up with your steering. Best of luck! 🍻
Thank you for the information, Great job! I have a question I bought a remanufactured gear box how do I install correctly? Thank you in advanced!
This video is a step by step video on how to do exactly that 😁
My thing is it is a remanufactured one do you think it is already centered, since yours is new mine isn’t?
@karlahernandez-dr6uq ohh gotcha gotcha. mine was a reman as well. It will install exactly the same as a new one though. In the video I show you how to center it. Essentially you spin it all the way to the right, then count how many turns it takes to get all the way back to the left. Take that number and divide it by 2. Whatever that equals out to is how many turns back to the right will be center easy peasy. You got this! 🍻
@@KooshdaakaaGarage Thank you so much! I hope I get it done right!
why didn’t u choose to just replace the seals, instead of buying a whole new unit? i’m considering the seal kit for my leaker…
Good question! I needed the truck back on the road asap for a 2 month overland trip I was doing and the Cardone boasted tighter machine tolerances over stock. That said I kept the old gear box and bought seals so I'll try my hand at that too 🤘😊🍻
On my duramax the steering wheel moves side to side its all loose would changing the box help
Hello Rivera and thank you for your question. If you have significant play in your steering wheel then it can definitely be your steering gear box going out. It might not hurt to change your steering stabilizer as well 🍻
Did you have to center the input shaft before install or was it factory preset
Hello and thank you for the question Kyle. I show you how to center the input shaft in the video 🤘😁🍻
Why didn't you flush it?
It's been leaking/flushing for several years by this point. I can assure you that the fluid is pretty new and had I not fixed the issue there would be new fluid it it again by the next week, the week after that, the week after that and so on :D
So I just replaced my power steering pump and I’m pretty sure I’ve worked all the air out the system but not totally sure because I have this issue where my steering wheel only has power steering turning right, as soon as you turn left it’s as hard as a rock and when you touch the brake pedal turning left it kinda jolts the wheel the opposite direction any advice?
Hey Pat, sorry to hear about the power steering issue. Do you have any kinked or clogged hoses? I've seen this happen with a hose that was kinked during installation.
No clogged hoses, came to the conclusion it’s this steering box, but I can’t get the damn pitman arm off
I just replaced my gearbox 99' suburban Chevy, but how long does it actually take to bleed air out? I also was driving down my street and the steering didn't want to turn.
It doesn't take long to bleed the air out. Few minutes at best.
Is it safe to purchase a used gearbox in your opinion?
As long as you've given it a good inspection I'd say so. You can also pick up a rebuild seal kit for about $20 and rebuild it before installing it. I have a kit I still need to install in my old gearbox so that I have an extra on deck or to give away or sell.
@@KooshdaakaaGarage thank you 🙏🏿
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@@KooshdaakaaGarage yes, sir, you’re welcome!
Wow, you still fumble with that skid plate?? I threw that trash away many years ago. I've gotta do the pump and gearbox on my 02' lb7
Lol, these skid plates are trash. I'll make a nice new one before too long 🍻
@@KooshdaakaaGarage i was thinking about fab'n one out of SS
@@mariocorleone106 hell yeah, that would be perfect man
@@KooshdaakaaGarage How's the Alaskan life?
@@mariocorleone106 excellent! I'm quite a few miles back on logging road camping at the moment. Only spot in the last 100 miles I've had a couple bars of service! I'm video taping the ride alongs and will be publishing them this fall if you are interested 🤘😁🍻
Goodness. We don't need to see all the struggling and breathing into the microphone. lol! Just edit it to show each step.
Dang. I went to your channel to watch your videos to see if I could pick up some editing technique tips... but it appears you do not create content. Pity 🤷
How do you found center