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Hi I am a newbie here. I know this is an old thread,but I am sure that it gets looked at a lot. Now I may be wrong , but in my humble opinion steering boxes. especially power steering ones which do not have to develop the force mechanically do not have significant loading on the internal components and should not show significant wear after only150K. In my mind there are only two possibilities for this, to me, excessive wear, running the steering with low fluid levels which will cause cavitation pitting,I believe that is the correct term. The other possible reason is that Land Rover does not know,or bother to properly case harden the parts that require it. Spending the "big bucks" and getting a genuine steering box will probably only buy you approximately the same mileage you got out of the old one. I have a 95 discovery and a 74 series3 88 and I love driving them, both have manual transmissions and I love the way they drive, as long as the power steering is working in the discovery Ha Ha. But I have found many examples of shoddy engineering. Many thanks to Mickey W for posting the great pictures Especially the "special tool" for removing the locknut. Cheers