What steering joint can i use instead of makeing the straight rod go direct to the rack?

another u/j would work. i believe gusterwotsit has a couple on his car. allegro's have been mentinoed as donors for u/j's, or just an other from another column down link.

Ned.

NFS do steering bits

http://www.nfauto.co.uk/cbs_products4.htm

not so locost though. speaking of which, it make be worth trying lolocost.com

Try a Triumph TR7 steering joint, i've used this and it bolts straight on to the Mk2 Escort rack, and has a bolt on UJ at the steering wheel end, you can get them from Rimmer Bros, Lincoln.

Rally Design do what they call a "Group 4 Steering Coupling" which fits the Escort rack splines and can be welded onto a 16mm thick bar at the other end. They cost about £18 IIRC.

Cheers,
Craig.

i bought two off lolocost £12 each they have the ford spline on both ends
no probs
cheers
dave

Yes sorry I should have made it clearer that the Group 4 coupling has splines at both ends too but I welded one of mine onto a 16mm bar. Very nice quality too.

Cheers,
Craig.

Find yourself a defunct steering rack or transmission and steal the two CV joints.

If you welded CV's on, you could almost make the steering wrap around a corner!

What kind of pinch does your steering have to go through?

-MR

I used a second shaft from a sierra to extend the downlink - you can use the parts from both to hold them together using a 3rd UJ without any sleeve to join them.

I can do pics if needed.

However, I did have to get a plain bearing block made to support the shaft as a 3rd UJ needs support.

Some have used rod ends in this way.

atb

steve

Hi,
I used a 16mm rod end in a similar way to the Tiger Avon design to support the lower section of the downlink. It seems to be very secure but I would caution against having large angles across the universal joints as it can make the steering a bit "non-linear" in terms of torque and can make it a bit snatchy as it rotates. Using genuine CV joints instead of simple universal joints should resolve this but as long as you minimise the angles it's not a problem. I'd say that the angles of my downlink sections are about as large as I would recommend.

See my website for more details, especially in the January 2004 build diary page.

Cheers,
Craig.