Power Steering

[RODA]

Mike,

Fantastic work as we have all come to expect.

It is great reading you build threads because I know there is yet another CR that was once complete and is now in bits on the shed floor, however I am planing on having my back together for Winton. March 2011 was we I pulled my apart to be painted. I have just be informed I will have it back from the painters in about 2 weeks, we will wait and see.

Have you installed your steering rack yet?

When I installed mind, I lowered the rack by about 30mm to get it positioned correctly and strengthened all the gussets as well. I think Leigh lowered his by about 25mm.

I have the exact size I lowered it by some were if you want it.

Rod

[Aussie Mike]

Originally Posted by RODA

Mike,

Fantastic work as we have all come to expect.

It is great reading you build threads because I know there is yet another CR that was once complete and is now in bits on the shed floor, however I am planing on having my back together for Winton. March 2011 was we I pulled my apart to be painted. I have just be informed I will have it back from the painters in about 2 weeks, we will wait and see.

Have you installed your steering rack yet?

When I installed mind, I lowered the rack by about 30mm to get it positioned correctly and strengthened all the gussets as well. I think Leigh lowered his by about 25mm.

I have the exact size I lowered it by some were if you want it.

Rod

That's good news on the paint Rod. I'm looking forward to getting mine in paint.

The VL, VN and VP Commodore racks are all the same length with the same mountings. I've got a couple of different power racks. One from a VL and one from a VN and they bolt straight in. The VP rack differs from the others as some of them have a double D input shaft and some are splined the same as the VN and VL. The VL Manual rack has a different spline again.

The VP rack also has thicker rack ends with a 16mm fine thread but the rack ends are interchangable. I used the VP rack ends on my VL rack and they are now on this power rack.

I didn't lower my rack, I raised the tie rod position to fix the bump steer. It's not perfect but it's better than it was. I deleted the tie rod ends and changed them to rod ends. It went through engineering like this.

Clearance to the iside of the wheel rim was tight with the stock tie rod so that was part of the thinking for switching it round ths way. This will let me put a 9" wide rim on the front in future.



Cheers