[TR] TR250 handling question

[glemon at neb.rr.com]

I agree with the other e-mails, sounds like not enough to in and you might have gotten the quick ratio rack that Moss and others sell.  If they took the front suspension apart they could have conceivably put the upper a-arms on backwards, I don't know that it is even drive able if you do that, but it would certainly mess up castor and steering feel if they did.  It is a pretty easy mistake to make if you don't do one side at a time.

Greg Lemon
TR250

---- Andrew Uprichard <auprichard at uprichard.net> wrote: 
> I am going to be interested in seeing the replies to this posting.  If the
> car was handling and driving so well, why would it need a new steering rack?
> 
> I would have thought expectations should be the owner says "handling of the
> car continues to be superb" - anything less seems like a problem.
> 
> Andrew Uprichard
> Jackson, MI
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Triumphs [mailto:triumphs-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Pat
> Fischer
> Sent: Monday, June 27, 2016 2:09 PM
> To: triumph list list
> Subject: [TR] TR250 handling question
> 
> Hello, Listers. Hoping for your expertise here.
> 
> Took the 250 to a local shop for some small body repair and new tires. 
> Handling of the car has always been superb with wider-than-stock wheels and
> low profile tires, but the two of the tires were 15 years old, so a rubber
> update was needed. The shop also told me that the car also needed a new
> steering rack and tie rod ends. They did this, set alignment and lubed the
> front end.
> 
> First getting the car back, the car vibrated at 70 on the highway. Shop says
> they've fixed that with re-balancing the tires. (I haven't driven it yet.)
> 
> Next, the car feels skittish, jittery at 50-60 mph, and you have to keep
> correcting with steering to keep it straight in its lane. You'll be driving
> along just fine and then Whoops! there is goes twitching left a bit. It
> doesn't feel stuck to the road as before this work was done. 
> Here's the question: the shop tells us that this is normal after replacing
> the steering rack, that "the car is more responsive," in their words, and
> has "a more immediate feel to it," but they also reference this as
> "twitchy-ness."
> 
> What should expectations be upon replacing steering rack and tie-rod ends?
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Pat Fischer
> 
> 
> 
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