Technical Any tips for removing a F1 box In Situ

OK gang, I found a donor F1 for my 32 frame-based project. would anyone care to offer tips for removing the steering box in the field? Pitfalls, anything tricky in the removal process? Truck is pretty crusty, I-6 is installed.
I will of course have jack, jack stands, battery powered impact, cutoff wheels and sawzall. Puller for the steering arm and wrenches. Hell, I might take my cutting torch but I dont want to scare the guy.
Thanks in advance.
The whole sorry episode will be posted on my PDQ 32 thread

 

I would try to get the whole truck. There is a lot there. Shock mounts, drums, spindles, ….other stuff you have not thought about.
Just get the whole thing if you can.

 

Sawzall of the drag link, either sawzall the column drop or stick a step drill bit on the bolt heads and drill them off.

breaker bar with a socket for rusty or rounded off bolts in your pocket for backup. Dead blow hammer and a can of kroil and I bet you could get it out pretty fast.

if the truck is on the ground with a wheel and tire you might thing about a floor jack and 4 way wrench. The effort dragging it out would be more than worth the added room and reduced time of getting the bolts off the frame.

I don’t recall exactly how the box bolts to the rail, might even just take a grinder to the end and pop them off.

you havnt got to make a mess of everything for anyone coming for parts after you but there’s not going to be any tears shed if you cut a garbage bolt in half. To any further dis***embly with it sitting in your work bench in the comfort of your shop.

 

The hardest part will be pulling the pitman arm off the sector shaft. Maybe removing the floor board tin will be a pain too.

 

To that point a steering wheel puller might make it easier

 

Look out for snakes!

 

Wrench big enough for the nut on the steering box. 5/16 socket to get all the little screws out that holds the tin around the steering column

 

drag the whole thing home and save some parts for you or others projects,. .lets see a pic of the truck please.

 

Oohh grab the bendix brakes and the pedal box and pedals. Brakes will bee good for a core if nothing else. 15” wheels . Probably a lot of stuff.

 

You need a steering wheel puller.
It may be a good idea to bring a tie rod fork.
If you can’t lift the truck, you’ll need a shovel to dig a hole so the gear can clear underneath the truck.

Don’t saw it. You may want to use the column.

 

You can’t pull it up through the cab?

 

Pitman arm puller and steering wheel puller

 

The one I pulled a hundred years ago was pretty simple. I needed only the box and the spear of death, so I pulled the steering wheel, popped the drag link, removed the three or four frame bolds, and slid the shaft out of the column.

No special tools other than a steering wheel puller.

I recall dreading the job, and being quite pleased with how well it went.

 

Couple three cuts with a battery operated cut off grinder....remove 3 bolts...toss box in back of your truck band go home.

 

If you have any of those nice bags that tools or whatever come in, they make a nice way to carry an ***ortment of tools out in a field. Thats what I use when I visit a junkyard. Might want something to lay on if the ground isn't real dry.

 

Maybe if the hole in the floor is big enough. Then there is in the cab clearance with the column tube.

 

Had a yard pull one for me (no self serve, horrid hot).

The steering wheel does NOT have the convenient puller holes!
Using a jaw puller will tear up the plastic on the wheel.
If you don't have the right sized puller for the arm or the drag link is a bear, you want 2 big hammers and/or pickle fork.
And if you have the space, time and money, I agree that it might be a good idea to grab the whole carc***.

 

Yeah, there is no easy removal of that steering wheel without some kind of damage. Unless you have the proper (rare) KW Wilson tool.