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Re: 70 B steering rack slop

To: "'mgs@autox.team.net'" <mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: 70 B steering rack slop
From: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 12:41:11 -0700
The workshop manual describes removing shims under the top cover to 
reduce play. My experience was that the wear was concentrated in the 
center of the rack, so removing shims, while tightening up the 
"on-center" play, over-tightened the rack at extreme lock, making it hard 
to turn. But perhaps your case is not as far advanced (mine had almost an 
inch of "slop" on center at the wheel). So give it a try, it's very 
simple.

Gordon Bird had this to say:

>Seems to be a very small, yet annoying, amount of play traced to the rack
>itself.
>Any BTDT, fixes, or new rack in order?
>TIA
>
>Safety Fast!
>Gordie Bird
>62 MGA
>80 MGB
>86 Audi 4kq 
>
>
> 
>


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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.


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