I've got a steering box from a friend that wanted me to rebuild it and said it was out of A52 Chevy car, but it appears to be out of a later 53 or 54 car. It has needle bearings and no bushings. Part number on the box is 5665664 , which comes up as in 1954 box. Can anybody I do this for sure?
None of those casting #s show up in P&A 30 parts book for '55 or '58. As we well know, that doesn't mean anything ...
Well, I figured that it's pretty much A 53 or 54 box. Everything is in good shape. All I have to do is replace the Pitman arm seal and pack it with grease and adjust it. Thanks, all
I can look at the 54 box on my 53 tomorrow. Won't be able to look at internals. But I thinking likely it's a 54 off casting number
According to this it would be a 53 or later box. https://www.chevytalk.org/fusionbb/showtopic.php?tid/197370/ Note that thread is 11 years old. Moving over to the 'The Filling Station" pages that I use a lot to figure out what's what on Chevys https://www.fillingstation.com/ Quite often a rather vague item in the search such as "steering" and then scroll works better than a detailed search. If it exists for an old Chevy they usually show it but experience (a park light lens for my 77 1 ton) say that they may not always have it in stock and may bring it in on a stock order rather than special order. Meanwhile I'm going with the concept that 49/52 have bushings and 53/54 have needle bearings.
Thanks, everybody. I didn't really need to replace anything Except the Pitman arm seal, it's nice and tight packed full of cornhead grease.
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