I've just bought one of the mentioned bearings
After all of the vrious posts about self centring, I have fitted new wishbones etc and its much improved.
Got the car jacked up and was checking the steering etc
However, I think i should be able to turn the wheels with minimal effort.
Its not - it needs a fairly hefty push to turn the wheels. This obviously wont be helping my self centring.....
SO, how to i 'loosen up' the steering so that it turns more freely?
What rack are you running? Sierra or Escort?
Are the parts new? Sometimes they just take a bit of waggling to free up... Not sure if that's the technical term....
replacing the plastic bearing for a proper one on the sierra column makes a differance.
Afraid it going to be one of those elimination jobs, I take off the steering down link first to see if it binding on the column if you do this and it
still still stiff then its more likely to be a stiff rack, are all this bits brand new? AS said above if they are new could just need bedding in, my
guess would be the steering column bush not being exactly in-line with the down link section causing it to bind. Somebody did a mod that used a
bearing instead of the normal sierra bush which made it loads better but unfortuanatly due to the lager I can't remember who it was.
Cheers
Rich
mr henderson
I've just bought one of the mentioned bearings
No new parts, so they shouldnt need bedding in.....
hmmmm , do i have a Sierra or escort rack?
pathetic though it sounds, its about six years since i fitted it, and cant remember
How do i tell them apart?
The Escort rack is fixed to the car with a pair of clamps
that look like exhaust clamps.The sierra rack has a pair of lugs
welded to the rack body and its fixed down with a couple of m12 bolts.
Andy
or the sierra rack could be the all alloy one
tony
I bet it is one UJ. Either too much angle, not in phase or requires a sliding spline section to take movement. How many UJs do you have, are any of
the angles greater than 25- 35 degrees?
Darren
its a sierra rack then
I only have one UJ....
whats the angle of the uj? Is the shaft straight, if it is off, or slightly bent it will catch. You may need 2 ujs.
Darren
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Originally posted by cd.thomson
mr henderson
Hi
If it is in the column bushes you usually find that just having the upper and lower bushes aligned eliminates any problems there.
Most manufactured kits are not aligned properly which usually causes the problems in that area but with a bit of fettling they can be sorted.
Cheers Matt
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Originally posted by MikeRJ
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Originally posted by cd.thomson
mr henderson
With due respect to Mr Henderson, the Robin Hood chaps were using these bearings for their steering columns years ago.
[Edited on 14/9/09 by MikeRJ]
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Originally posted by MikeRJ
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Originally posted by cd.thomson
mr henderson
With due respect to Mr Henderson, the Robin Hood chaps were using these bearings for their steering columns years ago.
[Edited on 14/9/09 by MikeRJ]