[Spridgets] A40 steering help

[William McLeod]

Find a friend with a TR-3 repair manual.  Same old worm and peg,  
better instructions.  The peg and the worm gear both wear, and  
eventually the peg just plain gets sloppy.  When you tighten the  
adjuster bolt, you are crushing the peg down into the bottom of the  
channel, but because the sides are worn, you just won't get a good  
fit.  You might talk to Bill Close in Phoenix (b_close at hotmail.com).   
He makes a kit which adapts a Spitfire rack and pinion to a TR-3 for  
better steering (way better!).  It might work with an A-40.

Regards, Bill
Slightly Classics
Tucson


On Nov 25, 2008, at 3:31 PM, Frank Clarici wrote:

> My daughter's Austin A40 has Big Healey type steering, aka tractor  
> steering gear.
> If I wiggle the steering wheel, I can see the bottom rod coming from  
> the steering box moving up and down.
> All of the many links, rods, ends, etc are good so it's not in  
> those, it is the actual peg arm that comes out of the steering box.
> This peg fits a worm gear inside the steering box. The hundreds of  
> links, rods, arms and ends bolt to the bottom of this peg via a  
> large splined end.
> Frank Clarici
> Toms River, NJ