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From: Pat Fischer <pfischer@rmi.net><br>
To: triumph list list <triumphs@autox.team.net><br>
Sent: Mon, Jun 27, 2016 2:58 pm<br>
Subject: [TR] TR250 handling question<br>
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Hello, Listers. Hoping for your expertise here.<br>
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Took the 250 to a local shop for some small body repair and new tires. <br>
Handling of the car has always been superb with wider-than-stock wheels <br>
and low profile tires, but the two of the tires were 15 years old, so a <br>
rubber update was needed. The shop also told me that the car also needed <br>
a new steering rack and tie rod ends. They did this, set alignment and <br>
lubed the front end.<br>
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First getting the car back, the car vibrated at 70 on the highway. Shop <br>
says they've fixed that with re-balancing the tires. (I haven't driven <br>
it yet.)<br>
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Next, the car feels skittish, jittery at 50-60 mph, and you have to keep <br>
correcting with steering to keep it straight in its lane. You'll be <br>
driving along just fine and then Whoops! there is goes twitching left a <br>
bit. It doesn't feel stuck to the road as before this work was done. <br>
Here's the question: the shop tells us that this is normal after <br>
replacing the steering rack, that "the car is more responsive," in their <br>
words, and has "a more immediate feel to it," but they also reference <br>
this as "twitchy-ness."<br>
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What should expectations be upon replacing steering rack and tie-rod ends?<br>
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Many thanks,<br>
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Pat Fischer<br>
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