nik
Sr. Member
Hey guys so I recently was involved in an accident where I hit the guardrail going about 50 on the freeway and broke the sector shaft on the steering. I was lucky and Mattt on here had a sector available by itself so I bought it from him (Thanks Matt!). After pulling the old, broken shaft, there was an obvious difference. The old shaft had much longer gears than the one I had bought. Other than that, they were the same. All the machined surfaces are in the same spots along with the gears. I installed the new one, with the shorter gears, and it works just fine.
I guess my question is why are they different? They both have the same part number stamped on top, the only difference is the smaller geared one says FOMOCO and the broken one with the larger gear says FORD. Only thing I can think of is Ford improved the design later on? What does everyone else think?
Here's some pics
I guess my question is why are they different? They both have the same part number stamped on top, the only difference is the smaller geared one says FOMOCO and the broken one with the larger gear says FORD. Only thing I can think of is Ford improved the design later on? What does everyone else think?
Here's some pics