[TR] TR250 handling question

[Dave]

That sounds like the caster adjustment is out.  TR3's have zero caster and I am forever correcting the steering to keep it in the lane.

 

Dave Massey


 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Pat Fischer <pfischer at rmi.net>
To: triumph list list <triumphs at autox.team.net>
Sent: Mon, Jun 27, 2016 2:58 pm
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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