The factory spots let go and steering is real cool ,turn steering wheel right car goes left..
jack it up,lokking in from the wheel arch get some one to hard lock on the steeringwheel and watch the chassis rail flex with the inner guard. Just weld it up.. Malcolm "comen in a hard driven 510 around these places" ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 10:47 AM Subject: Re: car darting around a bit... > > Andrew > > The chassis rail to which the steering box is bolted tends to flex when it > is loaded, some a lot more than others. Luke's is pretty bad and I cant > drive his car without wanting to fix this. The problem is accentuated by > wider, grippier tyres. The steering symptoms you are experiencing are > typical of flex in the steering box mount. To check this, park on concrete > and have someone move the steering wheel left to right and back. Watch the > steering box and note if it is moving and flexing the chassis rail. It > probably will be, and often an alarming amount. > > To fix this you need to build a brace that bolts to the top of the steering > box and is welded to a shaped, almost vertical flat steel bar that is > bolted through the inner guard right beside the strut tower, for additional > stiffening. This stiffens up the steering box and should eliminate the > problem. You can buy these brackets from one of the Datsun 1600 specialist > suppliers - look up Datsport.com webside for pictures. > > Rick Clough > Ph: 03 5172 2670 > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ********************************************************************** > Any personal or sensitive information contained in this email and > attachments must be handled in accordance with the Victorian Information > Privacy Act 2000, the Health Records Act 2001 or the Privacy Act 1988 > (Commonwealth), as applicable. > > This email, including all attachments, is confidential. If you are not the > intended recipient, you must not disclose, distribute, copy or use the > information contained in this email or attachments. Any confidentiality or > privilege is not waived or lost because this email has been sent to you in > error. If you have received it in error, please let us know by reply > email, delete it from your system and destroy any copies. > ********************************************************************** > > > > > > --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
