steering valve question
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Burning Brakes
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steering valve question
The PO of my car had hung all new steering parts but never painted them and the car never saw the road yet after that, I am taking it all apart to clean up and paint the parts. My question is about the valve assembly that threads onto the end of the center link. I took the one bolt out of the end of it to spin it off. Is there anything else that holds this part from coming off? Just need to know if I just need to grunt a little harder or if I am missing something else? thanks
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Once the pinch bolt is out, it just screws out. Need more grunt power
The pinch bolt collapses the control valve onto the relay rod - it might help if you use a screw driver to expand the seam a little but don't mess with the threads.
The pinch bolt collapses the control valve onto the relay rod - it might help if you use a screw driver to expand the seam a little but don't mess with the threads.
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I lightly tap in a chisel between the ears which will spread them and it usually spins off easily.
But first screw it in until it bottoms and count the turns so when you put it back on you can put it back as you took it off. (usually it goes in less than 1 turn)
But first screw it in until it bottoms and count the turns so when you put it back on you can put it back as you took it off. (usually it goes in less than 1 turn)
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Burning Brakes
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Thanks.. its off.. just what i needed to know.. another thing, these lines that come out of the valve and go to the cylinder, they kinda cross in a X at the rubber part of the lines.. sound right? can they be reversed or installed backwards? does it matter? somebody else put this stuff together and it never got completed.
