Manual rack rebuild
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Hi All,
I got a manual rack and am going to rebuild it.
Here are some pics. I plan on keeping a photo diary of the project. Any comments or advise will be welcomed.
The pass side looks like its missing something -- but I guess thats the way it is -- right?
-Dan C.
I got a manual rack and am going to rebuild it.
Here are some pics. I plan on keeping a photo diary of the project. Any comments or advise will be welcomed.
The pass side looks like its missing something -- but I guess thats the way it is -- right?
-Dan C.
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Yes, the car does have PS now -- and I am unsure of the year the manual rack came out of -- the part number is odd -- I think it is 944.347.011.05 -- rather than the 944.347.11.00 you usually see?
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There really isn't anything to a manual rack. Add some grease to the gears and maybe lube the bushing that is pushed into the end in your first picture.
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I had an extra manual steering shaft, but I lent it to Gina and Mike (user Gina.Kane) to have it sent out and reproduced. It has been 6 months or so and am still waiting to see what ever became of it. If I hear anything I will let you know.
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I had a track event last year where I lost control of the car in a turn, and let go, the rack slammed to the full steering stop in one of the directions (I don't remember if it was to the left or right anymore, the turn was a right hander). After that the steering was extremely hard to turn. I pulled the rack, and found that the bushing had popped out of it's groove ever so slightly, which then pinched the main shaft tightly, causing the stiff steering.
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If you look at your pictures, you can faintly see the ring indenture about an inch from the end of the main housing (pics 1 and 3). That is right where the bushing sits.
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I have heard that if you get good u joints you can have a machine shop pop off the old ones and put the new ones on. Then you wouldn't need the whole thing. The joints on mine were so bad that they were affecting the steering. I sprayed some wd40 on there and its been perfect for months. Now I just have pull it back off and get the steering wheel straight.