[Mgs] question about steering rebuild

PaulHunt73 paulhunt73 at virginmedia.com
Wed May 20 01:50:17 MDT 2015


If there is slop in the steering you should be able to feel that as free play in the wheel before the wheels start to turn.  If there is no free play then any vibration in the steering wheel has to come from other sources such as wheel balance, possibly king-pin wear.  Speed-related wheel wobble is wheel imbalance, rough surface noise and vibration at a wide range of speeds is play somewhere.  I take it you mean replacement of track-rod ends rather than the track (or tie) rods themselves.  Not unreasonable, but play in those is easy enough to determine, and with the quality of replacement parts these days I only replace something when I need to, replacements just don't last as long as the originals.

I only get 1 1/2 to 2 bounces on my MGBs, I don't know if MGAs were softer.  Even 3 has got to be less that typical American cars of the era, from what I've read.  Harder isn't necessarily better.

PaulH.
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  No, not so much the steering wheel, but I can feel the movement through the steering wheel: it kind of stutters, kind of like something has a gap or some rubber has broken down and allows some looseness.

   
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