Wait to hear from Frank C on this one Chuck. He's real adament about the
connection between steering column and rack. Perhaps he had an incident? The
shimming idea sounds particularly bad to me, tho.
Geoff Branch
'74 Meejit "Yellow Peril"
'72 Innocenti 1300 Mini
----- Original Message -----
From "chuck" <chuckc at attglobal.net>
To: "spridget list" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 2:23 PM
Subject: Steering Play
> I have once again got just a faint trace of play at the steering
> wheel. Last time this occurred, I traced it to a loose clamp
> where the steering column clamps onto the splines that go
> into the rack. Well, the same clamp has loosened again.
> I'm guessing that maybe the splines on the rack's input
> shaft are wearing out?? Is this a common problem? If
> so, are there standard, everybody does it, kinda solutions?
>
> I'd really hate to have to replace the entire rack. Guess I
> could yank the steering column and shim the splines with some
> teflon tape or some such, but ... that doesn't seem like the
> cowboy way.
>
> Ideas?
>
> chuckC (Caps -- UseEm or LoseEm)
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