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I need a steering gear box for the 1996 K1500 6.5 diesel Suburban. What is the best

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I need a steering gear box for the 1996 K1500 6.5 diesel Suburban. And probably the 95 Tahoe

What is the best to buy? Ac Delco? GM? Other.

I do not necessarily want the cheapest or most expensive. Just the best quality part.

Does anybody have a part number to search?
 
Just any rebuilt steering box is a question mark. My 1995 has had bad luck with pumps and boxes taking each other out - when the damn things actually WORK out of the box. I would have better luck in a junkyard than I do with A1 Cardone. (Some rebuilt boxes still had dirty oil in them.) I suggest the Redhead place at least takes the time to do more like fit the worn worm gears with metal spraying to build them back up or oversize ball bearings and they have a good reputation. Whatever that is worth. Pricing for the '60 - '70's stuff looks $50.00 higher, but, you will have to contact them to be sure your truck.
 
I Called Maval They said the steering boxes for 96 and 97 K1500 6.5 diesels were different and the part listed at autopartswarehouse.com would not work, but he didn't know what the difference was

On Ebay the AC Delco # 36-051739 also did not have this vehicle listed as a compatible vehicle



I'm confused on this.
 
EVO is the variable steering output system. It gave more flow at low speeds than it did at high speeds to give more steering assistance at slow speeds than high speeds. It used a valve mounted in the pressure port on the rear of the steering box, and the ECM would turn it off and on via vehicle speed. I run an AGR box on mine which was an all new piece, but it was horribly sloppy out of the box, and doesn't hold an adjustment like a stock box does. For the money though it wasn't much more than a reman, gave me the tighter turning radius of the newer 97+ trucks, and a lot more power steering at an idle. AGR says to disable the EVO system on 97+ trucks when you run one of there boxes last time I checked with them. Also GM did away with the EVO system for diesels when they went to the DURAMAX, but kept it on 1500 and some other gassers.
 
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