<VV> Steering Box installation

[ricknorris at suddenlink.net]

Dave,
I have installed two of them and to center it I used a pair of straight billed ViseGrips. You just have to be careful to not mash the splines on the pinion shaft.
It isn't hard to turn. I turned it all the way to the left and used a piece of tape with a line marked on it with a Marksalot pen on the housing. I then turned it all the way to the left counting the turns. Then I backed it off half the total number of turns and used the tape to mark the center so I would know if it moved during installation.

Rick Norris
#36 Sunoco Corvair
www.corvairalley.com 

---- Dave Thompson <dave.thompson at verizon.net> wrote: 
> Yahoo! I just got my new quick steering box in the mail! Thanks, Seth! 
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> I won't have to fight the steering wheel while I drive anymore. I don't like
> driving down the highway by braille, you know, the California highway Botts'
> Dots.
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> Anyway,
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> I won't be able to install the box for a week or so but I'm reading up on
> it. I read in the installation instructions that I need to center the box
> before installation. They say to install a 5/16-36 u-joint onto the pinion
> input shaft to be able to turn it to find center. I don't happen to have one
> "in stock". By looking in the various books that I have it seems to me that
> I can install the steering coupler onto the pinion shaft and use a wrench to
> turn it. This would give me a place to"grab onto" to turn the shaft without
> messing up the splines. Am I thinking correct? What have you other guys
> done?
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> Thanks in advance,
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> Dave Thompson
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> 63 Spyder Vert
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