[Tigers] Power steering

Sun Aug 16 20:12:48 MDT 2020

In my case I thought I’d be nice to my wife and we put the power steering in her Tiger. It was and interesting experiment but we’ve moved on.

Mike, you’re right about the ways that steering can be screwed up. Nearly twenty years ago I had the SCF race Tiger a foot off the ground on a lift. John Morton walked over and “felt” the steering. Everything in the suspension was new and I thought I had it about as perfect as possible. John burst my balloon when he said. “It’s pretty stiff. I don’t know if I could feel the tire patch.” 

After he left we got to work. I felt the steering and John was right. There was some friction there. So I started to pull the just rebuilt rack. I had started to loosen one side and decided I wanted to “calibrate” my “feel” before going too far. I wiggled the steering wheel and it was totally free -perfect! So I tightened the rack back down and the stiffness returned. I quickly realized that the rack mounts we not quite in the same plain. Dan Walters came up with the fix. We took a long but fine flat hand file and used one mount as the guide while we filed on the opposite side. We had it dead flat in ten minutes. Tightened the rack back and all was good.

Buck

From: Michael Wood <mwood24020 at aol.com> 
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Subject: Re: [Tigers] Power steering

Buck, you might agree, better to address the issues which lead to a need for power steering rather than throw boost at it... ;)

Mike

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Subject: Re: [Tigers] Power steering

I had a Vaxhual electric setup from the UK installed in one of out Tigers. It was great around town or on a curvey road. (you can dial in the amount of “boost” you want. 

Michael is very correct in that the installation was very neat, even in the LHD version I had. (about the only mod needed was to trim one of the metal defroster ducts under the driver’s side of the dash.) 

However I did not like the power steering unit on the open road. I never was able to get it to track as well as the stock setup on the highway. I added all the caster I could (even wedged the cross member) but I was never happy with it. It was just too twitchy on straight roads and I do a lot of long distance highway driving in our Tigers. After an 8-hour drive I just found myself working too much. I couldn’t relax. I pulled it out & went back to the stock setup. The EPS unit is now resting quietly on some shelf in the garage. On the other hand, if I were driving daily on twisty mountain roads I’d go back to it in a second.

Buck Trippel

From: Tigers <tigers-bounces at autox.team.net <mailto:tigers-bounces at autox.team.net> > On Behalf Of michael king via Tigers
Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2020 6:38 PM
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Subject: Re: [Tigers] Power steering

There are several ways to introduce power steering to the Tiger,

In the UK and Australia people use the vaxhual/holden/opel astra electric setup mounted to a donor alpine top section of the steering column, very neat mounts under the dash and keeps all the stock components from the firewall forward..

There are also several people who have used hydraulic setups from mazda MX5 (miata) and also some subarus... these though require a change in rack

On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 at 11:23, Lance Beauchamp via Tigers <tigers at autox.team.net <mailto:tigers at autox.team.net> > wrote:

Really , there is NO power steering unit that could be retrofitted to the tiger. The older I get the harder it steers when going  slow. 

  Beau

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