Greg,
Got play in your steering wheel (especially straight ahead position)? Are
your rubber rack mounts allowing the horizontal sloppiness? After 200,000 miles
the only wear I found was a few teeth at center of the rack and a tooth or two
on pinion gear were worn thin - creating an inch or more slop at the steering
wheel only in straight ahead driving mode. I couldn't adjust it out. Basically
teeth are hard to repair - so I found a rare new pinion gear, and a very low
mileage rack rod to rectify my unit.
The rack and pinion setup is quite forgiving of wear - but to a limit.
A new quick ratio rack might be great for racing - but its impact on pleasure
sport driving would be .. 'harder' steering! What do you want from your car?
If I did nothing else - I would grease the original unit - new parts are
super rare.
Rebuilts stock units are probably available at TRF for $225 or so.
Carl
'63 TR4 since '74
...how does one know whether or not their
existing factory steering rack is in need of a rebuild?
Greg Hutmacher
1976 TR6
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