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Lift complete, Power steering leak

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Okay, Got the lift in but due to the problems we had removing the pitman arm it dammaged the output shaft seal on the steering gear box. Any Ideas on how to fix this. My chiltons manuel tells me how to remove the whole unit but neglets seals only.
 






Woooohoooooo. Lift done and power steering leak fixed. The seal on the output shaft of the steering gear was definatley damaged, but so was the edge of the housing. According to a mechanic, he said the steering gear did not have to be removed but since the edge of the husing was slightly tweaked the seal didn't come out on it's own. I ended up removing the whole gear which turned out to be easier than I thought, stuck it in a vice, removed the two bolts holding the sector shaft, and used my finger to pull the seal. Using the correct size socket I tapped in the new seal and dust cover. The other problem I found was that the pitman arm puller that I rented from the auto parts store was too small for the superlift dropped pitman arm. Once completed I reinstalled the steering gear, hooked everything back up, and what do you know, leak fixed. The job took 3 hours but would have been less if I started by removing the steering gear.
 






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