Question on 9K steering

Jim is in Los Vegas, ♦️♣️😁♥️♠️, it's 0*F here and Jim said the 9K needs to run to steer and the last time she didn't want to even pull start... fuel, filters and injectors I suspect.
Chain up the 8T and just tug it home ... naww I'm Irish but my luck is mostly Scottish; so I'll just call a wrecker.

Gazing at the Parts Book for the 9K2894 to 9K9999 Form UE032970 I see five (5) Hyd booster types so my question would be hard to answer without more information.. Thanks for looking.

when i had a 9K serial 807 it had the same steering assist that yours has. with the engine not running you should have the same steering power as if the unit wasn't there. un hooking it shouldn't help at all.

I agree with Bursitis, that is just a Behlen steering assist unit. It is straight thru with no assist.

Hi FD,
the power assist you pictured is not one we saw down under--after market boosters here were mostly Vickers or Rivinius units.
The traditional way of steering a grader before power boost became available was to lean the steer wheels over towards the direction you wish to steer.
In fact it was well known on long drives between jobs etc. that you sat back and steered using this method only for keeping the machine straight on a straight road.
Leaning the front wheels when bringing new Graders back to the Dealer from Cat Of Australia to turn tight suburban corners used to be fun to scare the heck out of unsuspecting motorists driving next to us--imagine being next to the steer wheels when they suddenly seemed to falling over onto their car.
Aahh, the good old days!

Cheers,
Eddie B.

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That's the same style of power assisted steering as fitted to Australian built early 12E 21F series graders, cant say I ever tried to steer without motor running. Would it be possible to jack up the front, get the tyres off the ground and see if you can turn the steering without the weight on them?

Wombat