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kenbob

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Does anyone have the tool to adjust the gront steering gear housing on late model VAC's? I am pretty sure there was one. If so would a rental be
possible? I have tried everyone's suggestion to get mine to turn but it isn't moving.
 
kenbob I don't know about a tool but there are shims in the front that can be added/taken out to help with the gear binding. However (at least for mine) I found that the steering shaft was the majority of my problem. The pedestal/tube that the steering shaft goes through and is held up by in the dash had gotten water in it over the years and rusted. This eventually packed in so tight that it would hardly turn. The solution was to pull the steering shaft all the way out of the dash and clean the pedestal/tube and the shaft from all rust. While I was at it I put a new bushing in as well, then added a grease fitting toward the middle of the tube to keep it lubricated. The pedestal does have a grease fitting on it however Case decided to put it towards the bottom and the grease shoots out the bottom of the pedestal and does not go up the tube. The VAC steers good now even with the wide front on. In fact we use it as a mowing tractor with a Woods RM59 in the summer it turns so well.
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Thanks for the info. I have tried a few different things to get that housing that contains the worm gear to free up but to no avail. If I had a welder I could make one with multiple short prongs to fit in the housing holes with a long handle on it. It should move then. I continue to spray it with pb blaster in hope of getting it to come loose. I am just guessing that Case made a tool like that. It would be so odd looking and for a one time application nobody would know what it was if they had one.
 
Yes I have had mine apart like that. Took out a couple shims. That bearing in the end is rare as can be! THe part you are showing, is that the end piece with the grease zirk, or is that the part that is buried in the tractor?
 
The part you hold in your hand, is that the end cap, or do you have the housing out of the tractor?
 
That is what I thought, but i figured i better check as I thought the sleeve was longer than what you held in your hand. went to the parts book to reenforce what I thought it looked like. Thanks for the picture. I imagine if I just remove the shims, it will cause the steering to bind when going right or left. Or maybe I am confusing that with my CA Allis.
 
I was right about Case having a tool for that. In the manual it calls it t-137--t standing for tool i guess.
 
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