- 1. steering rack bushings (score: 1)
- Author: "Todd Bermudez" <red_tr250@hotmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 19:40:33 -0400
- Fingers are plenty greasy as I'm typing. Anyway, I'm fitting new steering rack bushings to my TR6 & the Bentley book says to use some funky tool that spreads the clamps away from one another to ensu
- /html/6pack/2003-05/msg00400.html (7,221 bytes)
- 2. Re: steering rack bushings (score: 1)
- Author: Irv Korey <emanteno@attglobal.net>
- Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 21:16:15 -0500
- I've done that job using c-clamps. Irv Korey 74 TR6 CF22767U 63 TR4 VSCDA Group 2 #58 (#158 at Mosport next month) Highland Park, IL
- /html/6pack/2003-05/msg00403.html (7,416 bytes)
- 3. Re: steering rack bushings (score: 1)
- Author: jay_welch@juno.com
- Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 11:43:10 -0400
- Hi Todd, I just replaced mine with urethane from BPNW. It was suggested that I turn the steering wheel hard to the right and tighten the left clamp. Turn the steering wheel hard to the left and tight
- /html/6pack/2003-05/msg00414.html (8,375 bytes)
- 4. Re: steering rack bushings (score: 1)
- Author: "Robert M. Lang" <lang@isis.mit.edu>
- Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 12:40:15 -0400 (EDT)
- [good stuff deleted for brevity] Eeeek! Be careful here. Putting any shim under the steering rack will alter the steering geometry. By putting small spacers in here, you are increasing the amount of
- /html/6pack/2003-05/msg00415.html (7,935 bytes)
- 5. Re: steering rack bushings (score: 1)
- Author: jay_welch@juno.com
- Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 12:49:12 -0400
- Hi Bob, I can understand your logic here Bob but I really think the change of geometry is miniscule since the clamps still bottom out on the frame and the shim is just replacing the material removed
- /html/6pack/2003-05/msg00416.html (8,742 bytes)
- 6. Re: steering rack bushings (score: 1)
- Author: "Robert M. Lang" <lang@isis.mit.edu>
- Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 12:51:10 -0400 (EDT)
- Hi. Well, when you get into trying to optimize the front suspension geometry, 1/8 of and inch is a LOT of change. As a point of reference, the real racers will replace the tie-rod ends with heims joi
- /html/6pack/2003-05/msg00417.html (7,986 bytes)
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