[Healeys] Help! (Steering Box)

[Michael Salter]

Hi Bob,
While attempting to drain and refill the steering box and after failing to
heed my instructions to just loosen the 4 bolts a couple of turns one of my
employees did exactly the same thing on a customer's car many years ago .
As I recall he worked all day to resolve the problem without success and
eventually we concluded that the drop arm (rocker arm) was holding the
shaft and worm (column) down sufficiently to prevent the upper bearing from
going into position.
We ended up removing the mounting bolts, firewall flanges and upper clamp
then rotating the box sufficiently to fit a puller and remove the steering
lever which seemed to resolve the issue.
http://www.netbug.net/blogmichael/2012/06/24/austin-healey-steering-lever-removal/
Would probably have been faster to have removed the entire box assembly as
we could have repainted the steering box at the same time!!!
In the trade its called ENFORCED EXPERIENCE.

Michael S
BN1 #174

On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 10:47 AM, Per Schoerner <per at schoerner.se> wrote:

> Bob
> I think you're right, the upper bearing has "fallen" out from its races. I
> think you might be able to locate it right again by moving the  column down
> a bit, and then "glue" the bearing to one of the races using grease. If
> that is unsuccessful you may need to take the whole assembly out again.
> To ease the locating of the stator tube in the olive hole try to file a
> kone of the tube.
>
> Per
>
> Skickat från min iPhone
>
> > 28 dec. 2016 kl. 23:22 skrev Bob Spidell <bspidell at comcast.net>:
> >
> > Listers,
> >
> > Looks like I've goofed somehow.  I was finishing installing my new
> Lempert steering wheel on my BN2 and had a problem getting the stator tube
> back down through the steering box (I think it was catching at the 'stud'
> on the end plate that the olive gets bolted-up to).  Anyway, after no
> success finagling the tube through the hole I made the idiotic move of
> pulling the end plate off the steering box.  I've done this before to apply
> some sealant to the plate and shims to stop leaking, but this time the
> lower bearings and their race fell out.  No amount of sworking can get the
> bearings and race back into the box far enough that the plate can be pulled
> fully down, even with a 1/32" or so of shim packing; if I pull the bolts
> down the steering locks up.  I've studied the shop (Moss) diagram, and
> there are matching bearings and race at the upper and lower ends of the
> box; thinking the upper might have slipped out of place I pulled the top
> cover off the box, but I don't see anything loose or out of place.  No
> matter how carefully I try to pull the bolts down on the end plate I'm
> having no luck getting the lower bearing and race into the box.  Anybody
> have any ideas?  Been stuck in this predicament before?  I've tried moving
> the wheel from lock-to-lock and centered and everywhere in between, but it
> seems as if the steering shaft has moved down a 1/16" or more, making it
> impossible to get the bearing and cup back in sufficiently far.  Oh, and I
> did all the tightening and adjusting of the steering wheel before I pulled
> the cover off the box so I don't think the installation of the wheel had
> anything to do with this.
> >
> > Who can bail me out of this predicament?  If I don't get this resolved,
> my beautiful new steering wheel will be a static display only :(
> >
> > Bob
> >
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