Couple of Questions on 109 Rebuild.

LordOWar said:

From the looks of that you have the steering box out of the landy. I am going on memory from a few years back now so bear with me. I would take the colum shaft off. There is a pinch bolt at the bottom if you slack this off the outter column will lift off. I would grind down the chewed up lip on the bearing so it will pass down the shaft. Then you shuld be able to carefull cut the inner bearing off the coulmn and something to colapse the outter part in the outter column, use the ever abused screwdriver to colapse it inward. For the love of God dont take the bit the pinch bolt is in off unless you are rebuliding the whole box, you will spend ages swearing at thoses freaking ball bearings arrrgh its all coming back oi34t083t3409u-095-(*)*&£)(*$Y!

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Yes mate it's out of f car, do you have any more pics of what you did, not sure what you mean, if I start grinding knowing me I'll cut the wrong bit.

I'll have a look later, I should have more. The bit that is all chewed up on the steering column shaft will need grinding/filing back so you can get the outter column off.

I couldn't find that many useful pics but here are a few. The pic below shows the new bearing installed

This one shows the remains of my old one.

And why my steering shaft was past it's prime.

If you remove he 4 bolts from the black bit with the pinch bolt then the steering shaft will come out and all the ball bearings will drop into the box and you will swear, then you will see how bad everthing is and have to rebuild the box.
mark the shaft so you have a fighting chance that your lock will line up with the cutout in the outter coulm ok. What you need to do with yours is file the chewed up lip on the steering columm part of the bearing, every now and again pull up the outter column ( the black tube on mine) to see it will clear it. Keep filing away until you can pull it off. Once off you can use a screwdriver or similar pointy thing to tap from the out side towards the centre of the outter column. This should colapse the bearing and let it drop out. The steering column bit carefully use a hacksaw to cut it off .

LordOWar said:

I couldn't find that many useful pics but here are a few. The pic below shows the new bearing installed

View attachment 241786This one shows the remains of my old one.
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And why my steering shaft was past it's prime.
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If you remove he 4 bolts from the black bit with the pinch bolt then the steering shaft will come out and all the ball bearings will drop into the box and you will swear, then you will see how bad everthing is and have to rebuild the box.
View attachment 241789 mark the shaft so you have a fighting chance that your lock will line up with the cutout in the outter coulm ok. What you need to do with yours is file the chewed up lip on the steering columm part of the bearing, every now and again pull up the outter column ( the black tube on mine) to see it will clear it. Keep filing away until you can pull it off. Once off you can use a screwdriver or similar pointy thing to tap from the out side towards the centre of the outter column. This should colapse the bearing and let it drop out. The steering column bit carefully use a hacksaw to cut it off .

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Came back to have another go at this dam thing, know what you mean about loosening the pinch bar but just my luck mine does not have one , it seems to be one whole thing that joins the box, forgot to take pics but will tomorow.
I have a spare outer tube with decent bearing in the top so If I can get this one off can pop the spare back in, but no bloody pinch bar, dare not loosen the 4 bolts as I know the whole thing will collapse dropping all the bearings out.

Can not get this outer tube to come off, Anyone got any Ideas of how or if it can be done without taking the whole thing apart.
Not sure if it is all one unit or if the pipe will come out of the base.

No pinch bolt so needs to be stripped from alloy casing do it somewhere clean so you do not loose any of the top ball bearings.

Blackburn said:

No pinch bolt so needs to be stripped from alloy casing do it somewhere clean so you do not loose any of the top ball bearings.

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Finally got it off, plenty of wd 40 held in vice and big set of grips, took a while slowly turning but it came off.
Now Im sure by watching vids or rebuilding ,if I take the 4 bolts out as it is now in vice then carefully slide the bit off along the bar that those Top bearings will stay in place as long as I dont pull on the bar, then I can slide the other one With the Pinch bar back on,
Or am I just guessing here ?

It's been a while since I did mine but if I remember right it goes like this. If you remove the 4 bolts and take the flanged bit off you will probably end up with ball bearings everywhere. If you keep it upright and hold the steering column down as you lift the flanged bit up you will probably get lucky. There is a chance that the race may stick to the bottom of the flange and come out with it. Not the end of the world but if the steering column moves the ball bearings will drop in the body. I would get an overhaul kit and make a few extra gaskets because the ones provided are too thin.

LordOWar said:

It's been a while since I did mine but if I remember right it goes like this. If you remove the 4 bolts and take the flanged bit off you will probably end up with ball bearings everywhere. If you keep it upright and hold the steering column down as you lift the flanged bit up you will probably get lucky. There is a chance that the race may stick to the bottom of the flange and come out with it. Not the end of the world but if the steering column moves the ball bearings will drop in the body. I would get an overhaul kit and make a few extra gaskets because the ones provided are too thin.

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Ordered a couple of gaskets, still thinkng about having a go, was going to do it on iys side but your right might have a better chance if its upright,