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1. [Healeys] Steering box shims and adjustment (score: 1): Author: "Tracy Drummond" <bighealey@charter.net>; Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:11:00 -0700; I have play in my steering gear box. Experiences and advice? Thanks in advance. Tracy Drummond Gang Warily ! President AHCUSA www.healey.org _______________________________________________ Support Te; /html/healeys/2009-03/msg00350.html (6,941 bytes)
2. Re: [Healeys] Steering box shims and adjustment (score: 1): Author: Alan Seigrist <healey.nut@gmail.com>; Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:13:28 +0800; If you have a 3000, the slack can be taken up with a screwdriver & spanner (see shop manual). On early boxes it is more complicated.... Alan '52 A90 '53 BN1 '64 BJ8 _________________________________; /html/healeys/2009-03/msg00352.html (8,000 bytes)
3. Re: [Healeys] Steering box shims and adjustment (score: 1): Author: "Tracy Drummond" <bighealey@charter.net>; Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:38:11 -0700; I am going to give that adjuster a turn. I am having a heck of a time getting any tool on the stop nut to loosen it. Tracy - If you have a 3000, the slack can be taken up with a screwdriver & spanner; /html/healeys/2009-03/msg00353.html (8,283 bytes)
4. Re: [Healeys] Steering box shims and adjustment (score: 1): Author: Bob Spidell <bspidell@comcast.net>; Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:25:27 +0000 (UTC); I've tried taking the 3/4" or so of slack out of my BJ8's steering with the peg adjustment. If I tighten to where there's little or no slop, the steering is 'highcentered' (for lack of a better term); /html/healeys/2009-03/msg00355.html (8,633 bytes)
5. Re: [Healeys] Steering box shims and adjustment (score: 1): Author: Stephen Hutchings <s.hutchings@rogers.com>; Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:38:12 -0400; Whenever I read one inch of side to side play, I'd like to know where, exactly, that measurement is made. Out at the rim? Of course this would vary on the size of wheel. Just curious. Stephen, BJ8 __; /html/healeys/2009-03/msg00359.html (7,587 bytes)
6. Re: [Healeys] Steering box shims and adjustment (score: 1): Author: "Steve B. Gerow" <steveg@abrazosdata.com>; Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:53:02 -0800; Have some comments on the steering adjustment: Healeys use Worm-and-Peg steering. This is an obsolete 1930s system that wears in the center position as you drive down the road. Therefore it is not po; /html/healeys/2009-03/msg00361.html (7,805 bytes)
7. Re: [Healeys] Steering box shims and adjustment (score: 1): Author: "Jerry Costanzo" <grumpyinloomis@ssctv.net>; Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:29:20 -0700; Did anyone say , "Nice Rack" Too? _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html Healeys@autox.team.net http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/healey; /html/healeys/2009-03/msg00363.html (7,651 bytes)
8. Re: [Healeys] Steering box shims and adjustment (score: 1): Author: Robert Blair <rnbmail@yahoo.com>; Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:48:57 -0700 (PDT); Just need to find a spanner to unlock the lock nut, and then tighten the adjustor screw clockwise until "tightish", and then back off 1/4 turn - check the steering wheel play, and repeat. If it stick; /html/healeys/2009-03/msg00395.html (9,175 bytes)
9. Re: [Healeys] Steering box shims and adjustment (score: 1): Author: Warthodson@aol.com; Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:35:58 EDT; The original worms were machined to have a slight tight spot at or near center (I.E. straight ahead), when the peg is correctly adjusted. In my experience, this tight spot is often NOT worn away. To; /html/healeys/2009-03/msg00402.html (10,359 bytes)
10. Re: [Healeys] Steering box shims and adjustment (score: 1): Author: Warthodson@aol.com; Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:04:42 EDT; Congratulations! You now have a "constant clearance" worm, which some suppliers tout as a vast improvement over the original design & sell for many hundreds of pounds. Gary Hodson In a message dated; /html/healeys/2009-03/msg00403.html (8,556 bytes)
11. Re: [Healeys] Steering box shims and adjustment (score: 1): Author: "Steve B. Gerow" <steveg@abrazosdata.com>; Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:09:23 -0800; Thanks for the clarification. I've heard that about the center tightness. On my car the center was evidently worn down enough to make that no longer a factor. When I adjusted it off to one side, the; /html/healeys/2009-03/msg00404.html (8,136 bytes)

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