The power steering box on my Dakota blew the bottom seal just above where the pitman arm mounts. The seal was readily available at NAPA. I first tried to just pick the old seal out (successfully) and then slip the new seal down into place (unsuccessfully). It would almost fit in there but not quite. I decided I would need to disassemble the box so I wasn't working around the shaft and it really wasn't that big a deal to do; nothing went flying. However, for some reason I absolutely could not get the new seal to fully seat where it goes and I finally ruined it trying to finagle and force it into place. As the Dakota is my non-duty-related daily driver I finally just went back in and bought a reman to get going, so I still don't know what I was doing wrong. I put the old box back together to get my core charge back, just without a seal.
Bill & Kathi Parker, South Central Indiana, harboring of bunch of old and newer Mopars
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