Re: Filling steering rack, '69 B.(longish)

[Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>]

I replaced the entire assembly. Moss had it on sale at the time. Mine was 
very worn in the center of the rack and had a huge amount of play, so 
there was a gratifying improvement.

Max

Charley & Peggy Robinson had this to say:


>  Did you replace just the rack or the entire rack assembly?  I ask
>because there were quite a few messages in the mgcars.org.uk mgb
>technical archives about how to line up the steering column and the
>pinion shaft.  There's a special alignment tool called for in the
>Bentley manual for this in the collapsible column section but some of
>the archive writers came up with some pretty sneaky ways to do it in the
>absence of the tool.  
>
>  CR


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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the red one with the silver bootlid.