Günther-C3
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Replacing the lower steering column bearing is fairly simple and I highly recommend it to do! That´s also an important part for a thight steering.
Regards, Günther
Regards, Günther
Bearing and plastic retainer are on their way :thumbs:
Wow, that's something that never occured to me. Perhaps I should do that 'while I'm at it' doing the box & coupling & PS components. What's involved?
How thick is that adapter bracket the tie rods are tied to??
it looks like it's really thin.....
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Progress .... Slow but somewhat steady ..... Lol
I got the car down on the ground and off the jackstands, steering effort is absolutely acceptable at standstill - I was concerned it might be too hard to turn the steering wheel but so far I have to say, it could not be better : there is no play whatsoever in the steering, effort is hard but not too hard ....
And there's still some clearance to the 275/40 tires :
The brown truck delivered these brand new MOOG tie rod ends today
View from under the car:
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View from top ....
Header clearance is plenty .... Damn, looks like I built something that works ))
:nuts::bump::nuts: Good show man,
You know, that $1299 for the Steeroids kit doesn't sound too bad right now, too bad their crap is so flimsy.....lol
I got one used for$600. You could see it was flimsy, so I tig'ed plate and gussets on it.
In the long run, you have probably done the right thing building it from scatch.
Welded the crossmember in, added gussets, sandblasted and sprayed a good coat epoxy .... Making some progress here ....
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The crossmember you welded in looks verry interesting. Can you make a pic of underneath the car how to see the crossmember looks like?
Günther