steering trouble

[MichiganIron]

You generally need to press the Patman Arm off the Sector Shaft. It's pretty unbelievable how stubborn they are. After 22 years of being together, they don't separate easily. Warm up the shoulder of the Pitman Arm and press it off the Sector Shaft.

 

[jda1961]

i visited my dealer today and they had a ck30 in the shop with steering problems. it was an older model, it had something in the steering broke too. they tore into it and down in there where the 1st u-joint is at is where it broke. seems that in early models they used cheapo u-joints and that part failed. and when you see it you'll know what i mean by cheapo part. the replacement part is a good part. its a real pain to get to but simple to fix. in that one the steering shaft goes down into a hydraulic box with hoses coming out of it, not sure if thats the way yours is made

 

[scott1440]

finally getting back to this thread, hope it can help somebody who ends up with the same problem. turns out the steering was stripped, had to get a whole new assembly from kioti. it came with a new pitman arm with the new assembly so there was no need to pry that off the old one. the problem was, the new steering gear from kioti didn't have enough clearance for the gas tank. so i had to put in a few spacers to raise the gas tank up some, which then threw off everything else off that bolted on top off that. end of story is that it's steering fine, but the cowlings don't fit on right. at least i can make it go in the direction i want it to go in. why in the love of god kioti didn't make it possible to get to the plug to check/refill the steering colum plug accessible? you shouldn't have to take off the gas tank, and everything else on top of that off, just to check a level.