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Barbwire

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I just bought a 1984 Ford 5610 that is very hard to turn,a little easier to the left than the right.I raised the front end and with just a little nudge it will turn to the left by itself but hard to turn back to the right.It has what looks to be a new power steering pump on it with plenty of fluid.Any ideas what the fix is?Thanks
 

two different senarios... had one that would turn to left and back to center easily but not turn to right at all... was a clogged harden grease in right hand spindle.. used a 8 foot cheater pipe on a pipe wrench on the spindle to break the harden clog loose with copious amounts of wd40 and grease.
it would do this running or not running..


had one doing this also, but when jacked up, could turn left or right with engine off but not when running.... and it was a collapsed bearing in the steering box that caused the steering shaft to drop down and only let one steering port line up but would go high enough to let the other port line up....

And I am sure there are other problems that could do this as well.
 

Thanks, I'm thinking it is something in the steering box,not sure if there is some kind of repair kit or not.All the grease fittings in the front end took grease ok.
 
Apparently there are several steering options on that model.

If yours has an external steering assist cylinder, could be the internal seals are leaking or the piston
has come off the rod. There will also be a directional valve with this system, could be a problem there.

Other systems use a hydraulic steering motor. Be careful disassembling this, mark EVERYTHING! The ones I
have had apart will go back many ways, only work one!

Power steering can be tricky to diagnose, expensive to guess... Probably the new pump was an expensive
wrong guess. As far as buying a repair kit, it will only have basic seals and orings. Anything else will
have to be bought separately, won't know until you get in there. Any way to post some pictures? Helpful to
know which system you have. A shop manual would be a very valuable investment!
 
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