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Car Forum / MINI / October 2004Stiff steering
Hi, I have a '67 MK1 which suffers from a strange stiffness in 2 or 3 places in the steering travel. Sometimes you have to give the wheel quite a hard pull to to straighten up after a roundabout or junction. I have stripped and reajusted the ball joints and greased them with moly grease and replaced both TRE's. I seem to remember something about rack clamps? or the damper plug? Any ideas? Thanks I don't wish to alarm you but the pickup became really hard to steer just before the diff pit bit the dust and my gearbox worked it's way out of the casing . I was having to forcibly steer it out of the car park at work when it went pop leaving me on a Friday night in the snow waiting for the AA to arrive. Being a teacher, it isn't good to break down outside the school you teach at at kicking out time :D The Muffin Man > Hi, > I have a '67 MK1 which suffers from a strange stiffness in 2 or 3 places [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Any ideas? > Thanks could be that the steering column isnt centralised? jono  SignatureBarspeed Mini`s - Devoted to the Classic Mini "Persisto Transverbero Adversum" Email - barspeed@hotmail.com The Rover Mini Se7en Register - http://www.geocities.com/minise7en2001/ Barspeed Mini`s - http://barspeed.topcities.com Barspeed Mini`s Group - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/barspeed Barspeed Motor Album - http://www.geocities.com/barspeed1/ Ford 100E Group - http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ford100E If you have received this email in error please click below. barspeed@hotmail.com Barspeed is not a company or a profit making organisation. > I don't wish to alarm you but the pickup became really hard to steer just > before the diff pit bit the dust and my gearbox worked it's way out of the [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Any ideas? > > Thanks or the rack is worn out Fitzy > could be that the steering column isnt centralised? > [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.772 / Virus Database: 519 - Release Date: 01/10/2004 |
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