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Hello All,
New to the forum. Have received a lot of good info from this forum since buying my 1999 Lariat 4WD. I have been doing a lot of reading and it seems every part I find has an intermediate steering shaft. My truck does not have an intermediate shaft. The shaft comes through the firewall, with a rubber boot half way down, and then continues to the steering box. I unhooked the rubber boot and slid it down the collapsible shaft to verify that there was not a Universal Joint, and there is not one there. Then reattached the rubber boot where it was originally located. There is a clicking sound (pretty faint) deep in the steering column. All of the forum questions say to replace the intermediate shaft. I really do not want to pull the column out if at all possible, I have been watching videos, and looks like quite a chore. Secondly, I can not find the single steering shaft at any parts company (Dorman, Napa, Amazon, etc.) does anyone know the part number that I need? Where I can purchase one? and do I HAVE to pull the column out to replace the steering shaft (if I can find one)? Thank you for reading my post and thank you to everyone that takes time from their day to respond to my post.
akdoggie that is an intermediate steering shaft. Like I said in my original post, my truck does not have one of these. I have found hundreds of these. Thank you for responding to my post and thanks for the picture.
It has to have that shaft with 4x4. The column joins to the shaft then it goes to the steering gear. There is no other option of this. I read your post, and this is the intermediate to the gear box. There is no solid shaft, because that went away with the collision protections of the old trucks of the 60/70s.
The shaft in my truck is collapsible and it is does not have the intermediate shaft. PLEASE read the original post in its entirety. Please do not tell me what my truck has or you think it should have. If it has what you said it has, I would not have posted the question I did.
2003 is the only year that the F150 uses a 3L3Z-3B676-AA and not on all 03 applications.It was also used in 2001/02 Expy & Gators and the Blackwood. Ford shows it discontinued. The one I showed first s used thru the 04H model year, but the one you have is the end of the Expy/Gator parts usage. At least we know now what it can interchange with. Maybe you can find on that way. I've never run into this in a 150 and it is only used as a 2003 year partial run deal. It doesn't show to fit the 2004 H either. It shows the first one.
Hello All,
New to the forum. Have received a lot of good info from this forum since buying my 1999 Lariat 4WD. I have been doing a lot of reading and it seems every part I find has an intermediate steering shaft. My truck does not have an intermediate shaft. The shaft comes through the firewall, with a rubber boot half way down, and then continues to the steering box. I unhooked the rubber boot and slid it down the collapsible shaft to verify that there was not a Universal Joint, and there is not one there. Then reattached the rubber boot where it was originally located. There is a clicking sound (pretty faint) deep in the steering column. All of the forum questions say to replace the intermediate shaft. I really do not want to pull the column out if at all possible, I have been watching videos, and looks like quite a chore. Secondly, I can not find the single steering shaft at any parts company (Dorman, Napa, Amazon, etc.) does anyone know the part number that I need? Where I can purchase one? and do I HAVE to pull the column out to replace the steering shaft (if I can find one)? Thank you for reading my post and thank you to everyone that takes time from their day to respond to my post.
I looked at mine and seem to have the same shaft as yours. I have 2 WD 1999.
How much play (up & down, side to side) does your shaft move?
Under that boot what is there?
What holds that boot on? How did you un-attach it?
I see it is attached on the firewall side, the bottom of the boot moves up.
I found an old thread for a 2000 here, https://www.f150forum.com/f6/steerin...cement-458567/ t would have been nice to see pictures of the actual removal.
My Haynes manual does not show anything about repairing that shaft. I didn't expect it to.
Mine was all crusty from rusting, I cleaned it up some and painted it.
The thread above seems like he didn't pull the steering wheel.
Just don't turn anything before putting in the new one.
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