This looks like bad news. Galled and pitted. I have been searching for a replacement with no luck. Any ideas?

 

G'day,

You should ring Jeff Grantmeyer at Borgeson 860-482-8283. A year and a half ago, Borgeson acquired all of the tooling, drawings and rights to manufacture MANUAL Saginaw steering boxes from the Canadian company that had been doing this. The manual Corvette steering box is one that they are now manufacturing and selling as a brand new product. I visited the Borgeson factory in Torrington Connecticut in late October this year and saw the products being made there.

I can't say for sure if they would just sell a sector shaft, but a phone call won't hurt.

Regards from Down Under.

aussiejohn

 

Thank you John, I will do just that!

 

any good machine shop should be able to fix that for under $100

 

I thought of that but wouldn't that require thicker bushings?

 

some shops can plate it then grind or they could turn it down ,weld back up, then grind to original size. call shops in your area and they could tell you weather they can do it or not.
dean

 

Thanks Dean, I will check it out.


But it is agreed that it cannot be used in it's current condition...

 

First of all thanks for the really great information. One nit though is that all C3 steering boxes are MANUAL Saginaw steering boxes.It's only when the pitman arm drives the control valve on the hydraulic ram, that the steering box drives a power steering unit.

......About Ozzie Engineering...When I lived in Adelaide, my Range Rover power steering shaft looked sort of like your photo. Dirt and the rubber seal had abraded the shaft so it was leaking hydraulic fluid. The Range Rover dealer didn't want to replace the shaft...they said it was an expensive repair and to replace the shaft, the problem would just re-occur again. They took the shaft to a machine shop, had it lathed down and then built it up to specification diameter with hard chrome plating. This Range Rover dealer was the most unusual agency I've ever dealt with. A little exageration here...Every time I'd take the car in for an oil change, when I came back to pick it up, the bill would be like $1500 or so. They'd find something else defective and repair it without telling me in advance. Fortunately, having a lot of expertise with my own Corvette repairs, I didn't feel they were cheating me. I think from their mental perspective..I lived in the outback (Woomera).hundreds of miles away from mechanical repairs..and they were going to pro-actively make repairs to my car just to make sure it didn't break down in the middle of no where. Actually, they were the original sellers of the car, it had two owners before me, and the agency acted as if they still owned the vehicle. For whatever it's worth, I think the mechanics were all brits.

The Range Rover with added ARB locking diffs (vacuum powered) and a long range fuel tank, made it a very formidable off road vehicle. I did 90 foot sand dunes in the Simpson desert...Big Red? ... and the Toyota Diesel Land Cruisers couldn't make them. I'd go a little over the top of the dune, and they'd use their front cable wenches to extend a cable up the dune and over to my back bumper to wench them selves up. I wonder if the Range Rovers of today, with their computerized this's and that's would really be useful in a real out back environment. My Rover had the aluminum V8 with carbs.