{Chrysler 300} Steering Box Rebuild Service

In the next week or so I will be sending out my steering box for a remanufacture. Basically, I have narrowed the list to Steer and Gear or Firm Feel. S&G has a two-week tour around time and FF is two months. Mainly because they both offer in house manufactured reaction rings to firm up the feel.

I am going to be asking, and willing to pay for, an extraordinary level of quality control on this. I plan on driving this car as my main car for a long time. I am even willing to go to the trouble of having parts hard chrome plated to bring them back to specification if a replacement part in not available. Basically, I am looking for perfection on this.

Assuming the spare steering box I put in this last weekend is good enough to get me around for a few months, I care much more about quality that a fast turnaround time.

I have secured the following NOS parts for this rebuild:

A new piston assembly (worm)
A new sector shaft (roller)
All but one of the thrust bearings and races. The race MOPAR 1822-156 is nowhere to be found. I checked all the usual and some of the not so useable suspects. I also tried to find it using the actual Torrington number without luck.

If there are any parts that experience dictates that it would be good for me to hunt down, please do advise me on this.

Most everything else the rebuilders should have.

If anyone has had their steering boxes rebuilt and used one of the suppliers for a rebuild other than “stock” as to firmness and feel, I would appreciate your subjective feelings as to how that worked out. In my case the mission for the car is daily driving in San Francisco, think parallel parking, as well as being our cross-country car.

What I would also like to know if anyone has had any thought after using either of the above providers good or bad. You can email me directly at JDD@xxxxxxxxxx.

Thanks all, James