[Spridgets] I Lost my ability to steer

[Linda Grunthaner]

Kirk,
Glad you're OK. Yea I don't like the giant stock steering wheels ether. What
brand was the wheel that broke so we can check ours?
Lin

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Kirk Hargreaves <khargreaves2 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Here I am driving through our neighborhood to check on my wife who is with
> our grand kids at the park and find that I can no longer steer my 59
> Sprite.  It went out when doing a u-turn. .  and I thought I heard
> something
> coming from the steering rack.
>
> I find that if I push the steering wheel in, push it forward hard, that I
> am
> able to nurse it home.
>
> I get home and the next day I decide to pull the radiator and then pull the
> rack (I have another rack somewhere).   So I put a vise grip on the
> steering
> rod and as I turn the vise grip I see that the front wheels are turning.
>
> Turns out it was the cheap (no doubt Chinese made) after market steering
> wheel that gave out. . the splines on the wheel wore down.  Fortunately I
> had not taken the rack out.  Goes back to checking the simple things first,
> which is something that I have had to learn the hard way.
>
> So I put my stock wheel back on and all seems to be fine.  The stock wheel
> is like something that you would use to steer a large sail boat.  Those
> things are huge.
>
> *What about these steering racks though . . do they ever act up?  Mine
> seems
> to be doing well. . no issues as mentioned as it was the steering wheel
> itself that gave me the problem.  *
>
> It could have given up at 35 - 40 miles per while driving around town.
>  That
> might have been an experience I might have not lived through to tell
> about.
>
> Kirk
> 59 Sprite
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