MrFathead

I guess worse case is it would fail when you are trying to park the car when it is under full load, probably not when you are cruising at speed. I will keep an eye on it when it is installed in the car and see how it goes. I will brush some black paint on it so that it doesn't get all crusty, but it kind of looks awesome bare not that anyone ever sees it either way.

All assembled thank you for the help everyone. It will be a while before I can test it, I have to build the whole engine. Are these boxes meant to have paint on them? Mine had about 1cm of goo on it from all the leaks and when I cleaned it it is just bare metal. I am guessing it was painted and the paint got eaten off by the fluid.

That would be sweet if you could scan it for me, I have most of it ready to reassemble and that would just help me get it perfect. This thread was the only thing that comes up in google, so it would help anyone in the future doing the same thing.

Here is the tool I made to put in the seal and needle bearing. I can't see a way to do it without making a tool unfortunately. You could probably make it with the right size washer and some all thread, it doesn't need to be fancy the seal doesn't need much force to push in. It just has to be the outside diameter of the seal and no bigger or it won't fit far enough in the housing. The centre lump I made just helps keep the seal level and in the right spot but you could get away without that. The needle bearing is much easier to get in. https://imgur.com/FdQbZlH https://imgur.com/LMfYRps https://imgur.com/3gHon6S I had no problem getting the main piston in with its seal using the freezer and clamp trick it was not even scary haha. I have compressed the three smaller teflon seals with hose clamps and will see how they go. I am a bit concerned that I might have over stretched them putting them on... I just used a small pick and they all went on pretty easy but mine are much looser then the ones posted earlier. Hopefully once it has a few hours of freezing with some clamps on they come good. https://imgur.com/eTWkZHg I haven't put anything else together yet I will probably do that over the weekend. If I have done anything obviously wrong or stupid someone please let me know.

I will have a go at it tomorrow, I will just turn up a thing on the lathe the same as earlier. I will try a motorbike piston ring compressor and a freezer for the rings. My service manual is pretty average, I was putting together my rear brake callipers and it was assembled wrong in the photo in the book. Lucky they are not hard to piece together like a steering box.

Awesome thankyou. That is how I figured it should go but I am glad to just triple check, it would be a pain to have to get to it again. I was careful pulling it all out and I had it sitting in the right order but I knocked it off the table, and my service manual doesn't even mention power steering at all.

Hey just to be sure which way does this seal and dust cap go in? https://imgur.com/a/kkmiOcN I haven't put them in yet, here is a picture of the ones I am talking about. Seems like you put the dust cap flat side out, but I am a bit confused which way the main seal goes.