If you don't like shipping things off a distance (I know I don't), you might try an online yellow pages (or Google) search in your area (state) for automotive steering, etc. Good luck. Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: <Bobby_Wicker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 9:51 AM Subject: Re: IML: IML DIGEST > > Well, normally I would agree. I have seldom had trouble getting parts at > NAPA but they didn't want to touch this one. They could not get me a > rebuilt one nor would they send mine off to be rebuilt. I've gotten my > power boosters, master cylinders, and I think even a water pump through > them but not this. My gear isn't really that worn but apparently at some > time in the past the power steering pump gave up the ghost and sent a slew > of metal shavings into the box. These shavings have mostly settled in the > fluid holding area in the bottom of the box but some have, from what I'm > told, started binding the adjustment that would normally allow you to get > the slack out of the steering. When the previous pump was replaced, the > system should have been flushed to clean out most of the shavings. Of > course, that could all be a big pile of BS for all I know. If the gear was > never that worn, you could have fooled me because there has always been > play or slack in the wheel. I have tried different alignment companies and > have insisted that they adjust the steering box but I guess that nobody has > any memory of or experience with older Chryslers around here. > > Bobby > 64 Crown > 65 New Yorker > 67 Sedan De Ville > 79 New Yorker > 80 242 > > > From: "B&T Roddick" <1roscoe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: IML: Steering Box > Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 07:55:22 -0700 > Reply-To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Probably at your local NAPA, might take a day or two if they have to go to > the warehouse. > > B&T Roddick > 1964 Imperial Crown > 1972 'Cuda 340 > 1995 Concorde > 1988 Wrangler > > >