[Shotimes] Steering?

[Carl Prochilo]

Joshua Teixeira's website has an excellent write-up in this area.  It
talks about engineering changes in the build of our cars and dimensions of
the parts so you can better understand what might happen.

As George said, this area of the car does a lot in the way of support. 
The parts will wear out.  If your going to do a strut job, you might as
well replace the mount and bearing while you're in there for an older car.

For grins you might also want to replace the power steering fluid.  I've
used the Paul Nimz method.  I believe very dirty fuild can make for noisy
steering.
-- 
Cheers,
Carl Prochilo
92 Ultra Red Crimson

On Wed, July 13, 2005 10:34 am, George Fourchy said:
> On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 09:23:22 -0400, Co-Op wrote:
>
>>Ford had a recall for this.  The
>>solution was to install a plastic ring that spaced the strut downward
>> about
>>1/4".  Even with that, I still get a slight groan.  You could put a
>> couple
>>fender washers on each of the strut mount studs between the mount and top
>> of
>>the strut tower.
>
> The fix is a metal plate, shaped to fit over the three studs that go
> through the top
> of the strut tower.  Plastic is not the thing to use there....the weight
> of the car
> (910 lbs per front corner) is supported by the plate.  I use washers
> instead, if the
> tower camber plate welds have not been cut.  They don't require removal of
> the strut
> to install.  Otherwise strength of the tower is suspect, and the plate
> helps
> reinforce it.  You could use the plate AND washers, if you needed to move
> the strut
> bearing down more than 1/8 of an inch, which is the thickness of the
> plate.
>
>>On the other hand, you might just have gotten water into the strut
>> bearing.
>>IIRC, the bearings are cheap from Rock Auto.
>
> That's pretty hard to do....lots of stuff to get past before one gets to
> the
> bearing.  As small an amount as the bearing actually moves, I don't think
> it would
> be the actual source of noise.
>
> Zach...I have located your custom rear control arms!!  ;-)
>
> George (F)
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