Almost a year to this day - on a super cold Canadian day - when I was backing out of my garage the seals on my gear box just blew. We are not talking about just a slow leak but the fluid just pours out. I disconnected and looped the lines from the power steering pump in order not to blow that also. At first a lot of effort on my part was needed to steer the car - parallel parking was out of the question. However slowly but surely my steering muscles got stronger to the point where now I don't even notice the lack of power assist. ---- The problem now is that nobody but me in my family can drive this car so i am stuck with this nice but older car while my wife now drives full time my newer car. Is there any way without changing the gear box that I can reduce the steering effort?

There are a couple of used steering boxes from a 1990 300E on Ebay- would they fit my 1986 300E ?

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1986 300E