[Healeys] Odd steering attachment

Sat Mar 7 16:57:25 MST 2020

Hello

In the steering of real Healeys, (those built at Warwick) all the steering arms are connected to a triangular plate directly under the radiator that cushions any kickbacks from road undulations, bumps etc. It works really well in that regard.

The production cost of the front suspension of real Healeys must have been prohibitive in comparison to the Austin parts-bin suspension fitted to Austin-Healeys. Geoff Healey in one of his books did say that the Austin designed suspension did work better than the Healey design.

Hoo Roo

Patrick Quinn

Blue Mountains, Australia

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Steering kickback is mainly due to one or both of the front tires impacting with an obstacle. Type of suspension and/or steering design has a lot to do with the result (kickback) of the steering wheel. As Perter mentioned vehicles that are used “off road” or on rough roads will experience the sore fingers that happen when the right front tire bangs that 2 foot boulder on the road shoulder and the steering wheel suddenly breaks your death grip you have on it. 

Assuming that the device is a steering damper we could surmise that the BJ8 of this thread may have had a hard life.  Hard but perhaps fun!

P

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Subject: Re: [Healeys] Odd steering attachment

...anyone who’s had a Series Landrover would know all about those – basically a transverse shock absorber to stop steering kick-back. I’ve had several of those. Interesting though that my special bodied Healey 100 (the Ward Special) also had one fitted – presumably from its days as an Ausca-bodied race car.

Cheers

Peter Linn

Brisbane

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