Ive seen on some cars use a big bearing for the seirra column, in the middle near where it touches the top rail where pedals are.
ill try and post a pic later once i find one if no one knows what im talking about.
Where can you buy them from?
[Edited on 13/2/06 by Gav]
Do you meen this Link ?
Kind of...
Ive seen what i thought was actual bearings used, in fact i think their is a pic of one in 'The Book' unless it was just a rubber bush that
had been sprayed silver...
Should there've been one of those with the donor car? I only ended up with what looks like the inner part of that but it has loads of grooves in it. I think it must've just been spinning against the metal in the hole where the outer bit should've been Think I'll order one of those off ebay I was wondering how best to mount that bit of the column.
Some of them look to have a metal ring over the lower bit of it which makes it look like a proper bearing.
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Originally posted by dave_w11
Should there've been one of those with the donor car? I only ended up with what looks like the inner part of that but it has loads of grooves in it. I think it must've just been spinning against the metal in the hole where the outer bit should've been Think I'll order one of those off ebay I was wondering how best to mount that bit of the column.
Thats the one then. Sometimes the rubber is silver.
There is one in the donor but like many many other things the outer bit I forgot to take out.
As said the center bit was well worn and grooved as it would be after 12 years and 120k miles of use. I got a new one from this seller and can
recomend him. Mind you they are going fast as I think he had over 20 when I got mine last week.
[Edited on 13/2/06 by big_wasa]
Try this link on the NW Robin Hood site for an elegant solution.
here's wot I did. similar in a way to the robin hood solution. From memory it was a 20mm plummer block. What you can't see (because thy
aren't there yet) are 3 slivers of 3mm steel to wedge on the three sides of the triangle & get nipped up by the grubscrews (which are
conveniently at 120 degrees on the bearing
Bob
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Aye thats the sort of thing, must admit i like the idea the guy had for his robin hood.