Recommendations for Steering Box Rebuilders in USA? For W116 450SEL

[chinny4290]

Hey all.


I'm on the hunt to get my steering box resealed/rebuilt as it's leaking badly.


I doubt the gears are worn and so thus, the desire to have it resealed/rebuilt. My car only has just a few hundred ticks over 93,000 miles.


Can anyone recommend a good outlet that reseals these boxes?


This is for a 1974 450SEL.


Many thanks!

[cth350]

A used one should be easy to get. Swap it out, then reseal your old one.

-CTH

[LWB250]

Originally Posted by chinny4290

Hey all.


I'm on the hunt to get my steering box resealed/rebuilt as it's leaking badly.


I doubt the gears are worn and so thus, the desire to have it resealed/rebuilt. My car only has just a few hundred ticks over 93,000 miles.


Can anyone recommend a good outlet that reseals these boxes?


This is for a 1974 450SEL.


Many thanks!

The only place I would consider a steering box from would be C&M. You can't buy direct, but they sell through places like AutohauzAZ and elsewhere.

These guys are to steering gears what Sun Valley is to rebuilt transmissions. Fantastic support, really good quality.

Dan

[cleeves]

If you can get the box in and out of the car yourself, I think you could definitely reseal it too. I just did my W115 last summer. It was much easier to reseal it than R&R it. Recommend genuine MB seal kit.


-Henry C.

[97 SL320]

Someone on this site rebuilds boxes, dig around the tech section.

[BWhitmore]

Martureo on this site rebuilds steering boxes.

[okyoureabeast]

Check out these guys: www.carsteering.com

Got a box from them for my r107 for $350. Even included a prepaid return label.

Box is still going strong and all within spec.

[chinny4290]

Originally Posted by okyoureabeast

Check out these guys: www.carsteering.com

Got a box from them for my r107 for $350. Even included a prepaid return label.

Box is still going strong and all within spec.

UPDATE: Hi everyone just wanted to come back to this and provide everyone my result.

Finally got around to replacing my steering box (can do it at home, totally doable, but need garage space for it!).

I got the box from Car Steering.com. For anyone who needs a recommendation, the box I got is great!

Zero play, seems to perform perfectly.

Just be careful as when they seemingly clean the outside of the box and resurface it (or whatever they do), they can accidentally file out the centering notch on the output shaft when it comes to remounting and realigning the pitman arm.

Easy way around this is to center the box using the centering tool (on W116s/107s/123s/126s) through the peep hole and to match its position from when it came off the old box.

Otherwise, thumbs up for steering box rebuilds from Car Steering.com as recommended above!