[Healeys] steering box worm gear question

[Alan Seigrist]

Richard -

You will feel a fool when I tell you.

*Month Year*

:)

Cheers,

Alan

'52 A90
'53 BN1
'64 BJ8


On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 2:33 PM, richard mayor <mayorrichard at hotmail.com>wrote:

> Greetings Listmates,  I have a question for the group regarding early 3000
> steering boxes. I have one box where a previous owner cut off the worm
> gear/steering shaft about 5 inches above the box.  The part # is 16097 9
> 58. I
> have a donor shaft that has a part # of 16097 11 59. The donor worm
> gear/steering shaft seems to work OK as I do a bench assembly. However, I
> have
> learned from past experience that working smooth on the bench is not the
> same
> as working smooth under load in the car. Does anyone know what these part
> numbers mean? The first 5 numbers are the same - but the last 3 are
> different.
> Is this a distinction without a difference?
>  Richard Mayor
>
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