Tools to adjust worm gear on steering box?

smithe · Joined: 28 Jan 2009 Posts: 277 Location: Spokane

Anyone have these things or know where to get them? I need to adjust the steering on my Ghia, and it looks like I need a pretty flat 41mm open ended wrench and some large (25mm?), goofy, flat allen head wrench to do the adjustment.

jengel451 · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 4:29 pm Post subject:

for the big one, in the past, I've just made a wrench to fit. If you halfway handy with you hands, it's not that hard.

Coat the inside of the adjuster with a thin coat of oil, pack it full of JB-weld and take a large diamete bolt (short one) with a nut on it, and sink it into the JB Weld, let it setup, you now have a fitting you can put an open end wrench on to adjust with.

Totally ghetto, but it works. Laughing

smithe · Joined: 28 Jan 2009 Posts: 277 Location: Spokane

Nice!

CustomVW · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 8:40 pm Post subject:

I used to use a socket witha pair of vise-grips on it......then a screw driver down the socket hole.......
now I have a nifty snap on wrench......

shakajava · Joined: 12 Oct 2008 Posts: 48 Location: Spokane

Let me know when you get it figured out. The 69" I have needs a little tweaking. I have about 2" of play instead of 1". Sounds like a shop night project to me.

jengel451 · Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 3:03 pm Post subject:

Also make sure, before you adjust anything, that your pitman arm pinch bolt is tight and your tie rods are good.

Reason being, if you get the steering box adjustment wrong, you can destroy it pretty quickly.

smithe · Joined: 28 Jan 2009 Posts: 277 Location: Spokane