Coupler seperation

I bought a Mopar steering coupler kit off eBay, and rebuilt mine off the car. Cleaned out all the old grease, and reassembled it with all new internals. I reassembled it with a grease gun filled with chassis grease and there is NO play at all in the coupler.
The kit comes with a new seal AND a new steel cap. Trying to reuse the original cap is a PITA because the legs are usually bent to hell.

From what I have experienced, a BLACK rubber seal is original, and the ORANGE seal is the replacement part, so by looking at your coupler I would say that someone was already in there rebuilding that coupler because you have the orange seal. Someone is repoping the black seal, but it costs more for his black seal than the entire rebuild kit so I just used the orange one. I have an extra kit here and I'll let it go for $15 plus shipping if anyone wants it. I bought two by mistake.

As a side note, the rebuild kit comes with the tiny pin that ABodyJoe pointed out, but it wasn't used for my 69 coupler. That part might be for later cars.

PM me or email [email protected] if you would like to buy my spare coupler rebuilding kit.

Take care to align the parts correctly in the car because there is a "master spline key" machined into the shaft where it slides onto the steering box. To help you with this, the factory machined a small notch on the OUTSIDE of the coupler body where the master spline is located. Simply match up this notch with the wide spline on the steering box and it should slide right on.

George