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Power steering gear is the part of an automobile. That converts circular movement of steering wheel into lateral movement of rack for changing driving direction. Recently power steering gear gets more common. A Korean company manufactures a speed sensitive power steering gear, which provides variable steering feel depending on speed of the car. However, the Broens company in Australia produces and exports the test equipments for manufacturing power steering valves. Some Korean companies import the test equipments from Broens and the maintenance cost gets increasing. The purpose of this study is development of the valve balance tester to measure the valve torque of the power steering gear. This study designed and manufactured a chuck and a jig of the valve balance tester to take hold of the power steering valve using CAE analysis.