cardinal fang
07-15-2005, 11:29 PM
Today was a great and glorious day indeed! :D After hours and hours of screwing around with scout power steering boxes, I finally got one to work today on my pig :laughing: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: What a nightmare this one minor mechanical glitch has caused me! If your interested in what happened and what the finally solution was, read on.
I had my origianal scout box on my 55 sitting in the truck for the past few years. When it was working, it ran great, but firing it up with this TBI was its undoing. I got another box to replace it, and it too was not working correctly. I finally got a box throuh Georg, last week. The only problem with that box was it had the wrong size spud shaft on it. Now, this really is a mystery. Scouts were made between 1962 and 1980, In the early years, upto 1974, I think, the scout boxes came with 13/16 - 36 spline spud shaft. After 1974, they came with 3/4" - 30 spline spud shaft. Those are the only sizes that came on the scouts. The box I got through George, came with a 13/16" - 32 spline spud shaft. I called the remanufacture that built the box and they confirmed that they only rebuild that box with the 32 spline spud shaft. According to the boys on the Scout forum, at no time in its short history, did a scout come with 3/4"-32 spline spud shaft. And to complicate it more, Borgeson and Flamming River do not make a U-joint with that configuration. So I had this new box that I could not use because I couldn't get a steering joint for it :mad3: I talked to George about it and he suggested that I should ask the manufacture to swap out the spud shaft for me. Which got me thinking. I wonder if the spud shaft from my old box would work on this new one. Of course that ment I had to disassembly my old box. Now some of you may recall the last tiime I took a scout box apart with Morgan. I ended up with two broken toes. You can be darn sure this time I made sure that box was good and tight in the vise before I even got next to it!! Anyway, to make this short, I got a seal kit and put new seals in the little piston that houses the spud shaft from my old box. It fit fine in the new box and even works! So, I guess you could say I have become somewhat of an expert on Scout boxes over the past two weeks. Now to get an exhaust system and shifter setup on the pig.
I had my origianal scout box on my 55 sitting in the truck for the past few years. When it was working, it ran great, but firing it up with this TBI was its undoing. I got another box to replace it, and it too was not working correctly. I finally got a box throuh Georg, last week. The only problem with that box was it had the wrong size spud shaft on it. Now, this really is a mystery. Scouts were made between 1962 and 1980, In the early years, upto 1974, I think, the scout boxes came with 13/16 - 36 spline spud shaft. After 1974, they came with 3/4" - 30 spline spud shaft. Those are the only sizes that came on the scouts. The box I got through George, came with a 13/16" - 32 spline spud shaft. I called the remanufacture that built the box and they confirmed that they only rebuild that box with the 32 spline spud shaft. According to the boys on the Scout forum, at no time in its short history, did a scout come with 3/4"-32 spline spud shaft. And to complicate it more, Borgeson and Flamming River do not make a U-joint with that configuration. So I had this new box that I could not use because I couldn't get a steering joint for it :mad3: I talked to George about it and he suggested that I should ask the manufacture to swap out the spud shaft for me. Which got me thinking. I wonder if the spud shaft from my old box would work on this new one. Of course that ment I had to disassembly my old box. Now some of you may recall the last tiime I took a scout box apart with Morgan. I ended up with two broken toes. You can be darn sure this time I made sure that box was good and tight in the vise before I even got next to it!! Anyway, to make this short, I got a seal kit and put new seals in the little piston that houses the spud shaft from my old box. It fit fine in the new box and even works! So, I guess you could say I have become somewhat of an expert on Scout boxes over the past two weeks. Now to get an exhaust system and shifter setup on the pig.