stripped a steering line bolt

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jcrandall

jcrandall

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Small leak of PS fluid, so with some extra time today I decide to get under there and take a look.
It appeared that when I installed my new rack a few months ago, I didn't tighten the steering line bolt enough. I mean the one that has a separate "banjo style" bolt, not the one where the bolt is part of the line.
Well I overtightened it, and something stripped. Not sure if it was the rack or the bolt, hoping for the bolt.

So 'mud, what say you? Especially parts guys, any chance the bolt was what I stripped and not the rack? Sounds dumb I know, but really can't tell for sure by looking at it.
If it is the rack, which will suck, any suggestions other than replace the rack? I will if I have to, but that will be a whole lot of suck.
 
I did the same. Started by hand, everything felt good but wasn't. Took the upper gear assy off the old rack and installed on the new one. The old rack was leaking from the side shafts. The old gear assy didn't have any play so I figured it was worth a try. Has been fine for the last year. Bad news is you get to take the rack out again. I would recommend a new Hi-pressure gasket. I could not get mine to seal again.
 
thanks. Trying a new bolt and new high pressure gasket. If no joy there, out comes the rack I guess.
 
looks like this is my plan. The new bolt did not solve the issue so it appears I stripped the rack side. The upper gear assembly came off the old rack pretty easily, so that seems worth a try. No play or looseness there I can tell.
 
Spoke to soon! Had the Cruiser at the shop for a bunch of PM and the upper seal from the old upper gear has let loose. New rack will be ordered tomorrow! Looked at a new 200 today so the price of another rack looks really good!!
 
Cleaver said:
Spoke to soon! Had the Cruiser at the shop for a bunch of PM and the upper seal from the old upper gear has let loose. New rack will be ordered tomorrow! Looked at a new 200 today so the price of another rack looks really good!!
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That's annoying. I'll be taking out the new rack tonight and trying to exchange the upper gear assembly. It came off easily enough from the old rack and it's worth a try to me. Maybe it would be easy to use the new internals in the old upper gear assembly, we'll see. Might even take some pictures of this quagmire.
 
FWIW. I striped a transmission drain bolt. Replace with new and it would not work. Pulled pan to replace, but ran tap through first. Got lucky, found pan threads were ok. They make pan threads harder for this reason, maybe you could get lucky as well..
 
OK, pulled rack, switched out the upper gear assembly per @Cleaver. So far so good. It was definitely the rack side. Since we all like pictures, here they are:

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We have the same nightmare!! Noticed the black rubber dust boot (input shaft) is on the new gear assy but not the old. Did you swap that as well? If not the rack doesn't have to come back out just disconnect the steering shaft. Also, my local Toyota expert mechanic, my last resort but he always fixes what I can't figure out, Says the new bolt recommendation for the rack bolts is due to the Locktite on the bolt treads. Mine were coming loose so he cleaned them replaced the locktite said I was good to go and didn't need new bolts.
 
Cleaver said:
We have the same nightmare!! Noticed the black rubber dust boot (input shaft) is on the new gear assy but not the old. Did you swap that as well? If not the rack doesn't have to come back out just disconnect the steering shaft. Also, my local Toyota expert mechanic, my last resort but he always fixes what I can't figure out, Says the new bolt recommendation for the rack bolts is due to the Locktite on the bolt treads. Mine were coming loose so he cleaned them replaced the locktite said I was good to go and didn't need new bolts.
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I did notice that, but it's only not on the old because I damaged it. I switched it and so far so good.
Good to know about the locktight, if I have any leaks I'll try that next instead of just ham-fistedly tightening the hell out of it.
 
Locktite on the 4 large bolts securing the rack to the crossmember. Sorry I wasn't clear on which bolts.
 
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