steering shaft ball and nut

[glenn kingery]

I have disassembled the nut and balls from the steering shaft on my late model 8n. I seem to have a problem getting all 60 new balls into the nut for assembly. Is the a method to doing this?

 

[Dell (WA)]

Glenn........would you believe regular chassis grease???

BTW, we recommend 2-tubes of STICKY John Deere corn head grease to fill yer rebuilt ballnut steering box. WHY? 'cuz the sticky grease will NOT LEAK like the recommended 90wt gear oil. ........Dell

 

[R Geiger]

(quoted from post at 01:27:21 12/22/11) I"m talking in reference to assembly of the steering shaft and the gear that rides on it.

Probably why the book says to not take it apart! That said, I always figure that if someone else put it together so can I. I took one apart but i don't remember having many problems putting it together. CRS these days!! Use grease to hold balls in place?

 

[glenn kingery]

I"m talking in reference to assembly of the steering shaft and the gear that rides on it.