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Steering column bearing
rusty nuts - 9/5/09 at 07:29 PM

Following on from Mr Henderson's post about replacing the column bush with a bearing I fitted mine today. Had to make up an ally adaptor to fit the chassis where Luego put in the wedged section for the bush which took a bit of time . Found it to be well worth the effort as before the steering had a "dead" feel to it which is now gone. Self centering is much better and steering is lighter. HTH , Mel

tomgregory2000 - 9/5/09 at 07:51 PM

any pictures of your handy work?

rusty nuts - 9/5/09 at 07:58 PM

Will attempt to post some tomorrow. Missed you at Stoneleigh , your car looked good.

tomgregory2000 - 9/5/09 at 08:24 PM

Thanks, i wish i could have made it to the show on the sunday as well but work got in the way (got to pay for the car somehow), i want to do the bearing replacement on my car as well so some pics would be good.

Tommy

Paul (Notts) - 9/5/09 at 09:13 PM

Mel,

if you post up the details of what you did I will add it to my list of jobs to do.

Paul

ps also looking at the quick rack.

gavin174 - 9/5/09 at 09:27 PM

this is the bearing i fitted to the locost...

http://nw.rhocar.org/supporting_the_steering_shaft.htm

johnemms - 9/5/09 at 11:16 PM

I did the same ... cheap bearing and cracking job....

rusty nuts - 10/5/09 at 06:16 AM

quote:
Originally posted by gavin174
this is the bearing i fitted to the locost...

http://nw.rhocar.org/supporting_the_steering_shaft.htm


Thats the bearing but the part number is wrong?

Paul , I haven't fitted the quick rack yet just got the bearing sorted so I could do a back to back test without altering anything else. Found that the mounting for the column bush on my chassis isnt exactly in line with the column which is why the bush would "bind", also not big enough to take the bearing directly without the adaptor. Will try to post piccies later with how I did it.

rusty nuts - 10/5/09 at 11:14 AM




rusty nuts - 10/5/09 at 11:47 AM

rusty nuts - 10/5/09 at 11:49 AM

rusty nuts - 10/5/09 at 11:51 AM

rusty nuts - 10/5/09 at 11:59 AM

Photo 1 shows the column from inside the car with the 2 8mm socket head screws securing the adaptor to the chassis. 2 shows the coupling. CHECK the clearance very carefully , I had to file a bit off the lower bearing clamp to gain clearanceyou may have more? 3 shows the "wedge" for the column bush , it's not big enough to fit the bearing directly. 4 another shot of the wedge. Made the adaptor out of a bit of 12mm ally plate that was left over from my inlet manifold. 6mm steel would probably do. Bored a hole to take the bearing plate , drilled and tapped to secure the bearing and also to bolt to chassis. About an hours work although a lathe came in handy. Still need to clean it up a bit but pleased with results.

stevegough - 10/5/09 at 03:49 PM

Nice thread, Mr Nuts, lots of info + useful link - I also bought one of these bearings, but not got round to fitting it yet...

tomgregory2000 - 10/5/09 at 07:05 PM

That looks like a tidy job, going to do mine, well its on the list of jobs to do now its on the road