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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jackwagon3" data-source="post: 409729" data-attributes="member: 7818">Roger Rode rebuilt it for me. He said everything checked out great before he sent it back to me. And I believe him. He knows his stuff. I wonder if I screwed up something putting it all back together but for the life of me I can't figure it out.   The rag joint is in great shape so I know that is OK. I was told I need to make sure I have the timing marks lined up on the shaft too. When I take the steering wheel off there are 2 short line grooves in the threads and I assume those are them and they need to be at 12 o'clock?. I'm taking it all apart again tonight and taking off the gear box and try again from scratch. But I don't think those marks on the shaft threads are what my problem is. The rag joint only goes on to the end of the shaft one way and it only goes on to the gearbox shaft one way too. So I don't think that's it either. I'll use a couple of cereal boxes tonight after work, good idea. And I'll really closely check if anything is binding up in the steering components. And the pitman arm was sent to Rode still on the gearbox and he wrote Truecenter on it with a dot on the shaft when he sent it back to me. And just to make sure I have it orientated correctly,  I will count how many turns I get and make sure I have it in the middle before I reconnect the pitman arm. Hopefully that covers it all...</blockquote>

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