There is supposed to be a little bit of play in the steering, over
adjusting the steering box may well lead to premature wear and/or
locking of the box at full turn.
Proper alignment is important, to ensure the car drives straight with a
slight movement to the right for you and left for us.
Hendrik
who doesn't mess with the steering box
On 19/04/12 08:57, Dimitri Seretakis wrote:
When I did my front end rebuild all was well except for the steering slop. I
just tighten up the adjustment screw a bit and it eliminated the slop but the
steering still doesn't feel quite right.
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On Apr 18, 2012, at 6:57 PM, Rich Thomas<richthomas79td...@constructivity.net>
wrote:
OK the SD is all finished, I had to replace LF brake caliper as one piston was
pretty much frozen. All new suspension and steering bits, an alignment done.
Car drives well except there is still a fair amount of slop in the steering.
The u-joint on the shaft just ahead of the box is fine, I can rotate the
steering shaft right at the box and no response from the box. It is not a lot,
but maybe 2in at the top of the steering wheel, and it is really dead.
I am thinking the steering box needs to be adjusted, but with all the scary
stories about buggering the box I am reluctant to do that. But with all the
work, and it still feeling a little sloppy, well, I would like to get rid of
that slop. If the box is already shot, then adjusting it would not do much to
make it worse I figure, unless the way it is is sorta the way it should be (I
think not).
On another subject, I put in (another) air cleaner mount, but the air cleaner
is shaking quite a bit at idle, which I figure will break this one at some
point. I have no idea if the engine damper is working correctly or not, should
I just get a new one and replace it?
--R
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