kamikaze
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| posted on 24/1/03 at 07:50 AM |
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steering column problem....
Wich columd do i need for my car...ive used a volvo as a donor and that means that i need a column who is attached in front of the wheel
centrum...(not behind...)
With the one i got now (escort LX -85)that menas that if i turn the sreeringwheel right, the car will turn left
I could turn the column uppsidedown but then i will end up steering the car from the passenger side...like you do in GB
"Bones heal and chicks dig scars. Pain is temporary,but glory is forever."
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Mark H
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| posted on 24/1/03 at 10:23 AM |
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Are you building a clown car?
Mark Harrison and
Q986 KCP back from the dead...
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kamikaze
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| posted on 24/1/03 at 10:27 AM |
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are'nt we all?
"Bones heal and chicks dig scars. Pain is temporary,but glory is forever."
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Liam
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| posted on 25/1/03 at 12:59 AM |
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Aaah - I see. All you escort experts out there - am I right in thinking an 85 escort would be a MK3 (at the earliest)? In which case your steering
rack does indeed go the wrong way. You need a MKII (up to 1980 I think) escort rack (well that's what we use in our escort based cars) or anything
nice and narrow that belongs in front of the wheel centre-line.
Failing that I suppose a right-hand-drive rearwards mounted rack would do the trick if you turned it up-side-down, but you probably dont get many RHD
steering racks knocking about over there.
Hang on a second guys - a thought: Why don't we all use LHD mini racks turned up-side down? If we could find them (probably would have to buy a
quickrack version from a dealer) wouldn't they surely be even narrower than MKII escort racks and help us with bump steer problems? Hmmmmm worth
looking into methinks - or not. What do you reckon?
Liam
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Rorty
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| posted on 25/1/03 at 01:21 AM |
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Liam:
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Why don't we all use LHD mini racks turned up-side down?......help us with bump steer problems?
Narrowest isn't necessarilly best. Have a look at the thread- "Fitting longer "arms" to steering rack?" further down the page.
Cheers, Rorty.
"Faster than a speeding Pullet".
PLEASE DON'T U2U ME IF YOU WANT A QUICK RESPONSE. TRY EMAILING ME INSTEAD!
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Liam
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| posted on 25/1/03 at 02:07 AM |
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Narrowest isn't necessarily best
Oh I know that - it's just that a MKII escort rack is too wide (at its track control arm pivots) to enable the elimination of bump steer in a
standard chassis - so i thought if a mini rack is narrower maybe it'd be closer to the mark.
I'll just read that thread though...
Liam
[Edited on 25/1/03 by Liam]
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kamikaze
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| posted on 27/1/03 at 06:39 AM |
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Liam: If you like, i could ship them over....
We (in sweden) had a stupid law that came i last summer about old cars and scrapies, that resulted in "all" cars from -85 an eariler ended up in
small kubes of steel...
Anyway i found a sierra one that i think will work..it´s a PS but i don´t think it will be any problem to fix that..
[Edited on 27/1/03 by kamikaze]
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