Allis Chalmers 5040 steering cylinder turns left by itself

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Allis Chalmers 5040 steering cylinder turns left by itself

Thomas	Hello all first time rebuilding a steering cylinder on a 5040. My customer has reinstalled the cylinder but the tractor turns left as soon as the tractor is turned on. As well as being very hard to turn right. He called me with this and I told him to bled the lines By jacking up the front end and cracking open the lines and move steering wheel left and right. He said that seemed to help a little but it didnt fix it.All I did was replace the seals,I did take the valve box on the cylinder rod apart to check if it had seals in it since the customer thought thats were it was leaking from but alas no seals in there.I was very careful in laying parts out as the came out so Im pretty sure it went back together correctly. But I guess anythings possible. Ive been told by someone that its out of adjustment at the box there on the cylinder rod, but no one seems to be able to tell me how to adjust it . The tractor repair place cant seem to find their manual and Id rather not have to spend money I dont have to use the manual one time. Can anyone help? I would GREATLY appreciate any help.
jt69	steering cylinder senceing ball needs new belville washers.
TomS	jt69 Not sure which washers your refering to. Ive enclosed the AGCO parts diagram, of which I'm thinkin #2 is what your referring to.If so I notice on parts list it lists 4 but there was only three in this one. Customer said its always pulled a little left but now its worse. Perhaps compressing to remove lock ring weakened them?
TomS	jt69 Not sure which washers your refering to. Ive enclosed the AGCO parts diagram, of which I'm thinkin #2 is what your referring to.If so I notice on parts list it lists 4 but there was only three in this one. Customer said its always pulled a little left but now its worse. Perhaps compressing to remove lock ring weakened them?

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