{"id":310,"date":"2025-04-15T00:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T08:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/?p=310"},"modified":"2025-04-15T00:33:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T08:33:12","slug":"the-great-steering-debacle-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/?p=310","title":{"rendered":"The Great Steering Debacle, Part Duece."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I knew I needed to replace some leaking components of the steering system.  The PS cylinder,  PS control valve, and all four PS hoses were purchased in one of the original batches of parts.  This is not the debacle.  The debacle came in the efforts to remove said pieces.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/pawney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250411_184739-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\n\" class=\"wp-image-311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pawney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250411_184739-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pawney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250411_184739-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pawney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250411_184739-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pawney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250411_184739-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pawney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250411_184739-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Before picture.  Notice the end of the control valve is still intact.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/pawney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250412_195419-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pawney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250412_195419-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pawney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250412_195419-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pawney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250412_195419-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pawney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250412_195419-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pawney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250412_195419-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Taking the control valve body apart and putting the mounting bolts back in gave me a place to apply leverage.  I was able to take a pry bar and put it diagonally across the bolts to twist the valve off the control arm. <br> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pawney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250412_195434-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pawney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250412_195434-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pawney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250412_195434-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/pawney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250412_195434-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/pawney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250412_195434-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pawney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250412_195434-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">With the control valve off you can see how long those threads are.  It took me about 4.5 hours to get this damn thing off.  Little did I know I wasn\u2019t done yet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pawney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250414_181309-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pawney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250414_181309-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pawney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250414_181309-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/pawney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250414_181309-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/pawney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250414_181309-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pawney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250414_181309-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The damn cylinder would not come off.  I would need a torch and a lift. Maybe a cut-off wheel.  Either way, it wasn\u2019t budging.  I beat the life out of it, not considering that maybe I shouldn\u2019t do that otherwise I could distort the entire steering arm.  So now I figure it would be wise to get new tie rod ends.  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pawney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250414_181828-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pawney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250414_181828-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pawney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250414_181828-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/pawney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250414_181828-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/pawney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250414_181828-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pawney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250414_181828-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knew I needed to replace some leaking components of the steering system. The PS cylinder, PS control valve, and all four PS hoses were purchased in one of the original batches of parts. This is not the debacle. The debacle came in the efforts to remove said pieces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vette-rebuild"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320,"href":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}