Latest follow up.
Steering slop was cleaned up and much better with the proceedure stated in my last posting about the orbital steering box but bottom line this machine still had something that was not quite proper overall.
Long story short, I had the steering cylinder repacked. Complete noticable difference at first operation after repacking cylinder.
The orbital steering box made the steer wheel very responsive and also made the machine easier to steer overall but it was the cylinder packing that brought things back to the way this machine was when it was new back in 1986.
No more dead spot during turns. No more extra revolutions of the steering wheel when approaching cargo. No more abrupt turns to the left while driving straight across the lot.
Process of elimination can be frustrating sometimes but the payoff of a machine finally operating proper is always worth the pain and aggravation of setting it right!
Jake
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