Its winter so we are back boys, we are back!
First job done, align the headlights, my new LED ones are super bright, but point down even with the adjusters on the bowl wound right out.
Took them apart and looked behind the bulb, and the clever aussie man who made then, but an adjustment screw in there! Boom, lights point up.
Now my steering has always been, hard, easy hard easy hard, when turning, I knew it wasn't the rack, its the fact my UJ's in the shaft are way out of line.
Ideally if one is at 45deg you want the other at 45deg, and well one of mine is at 40deg and the other is at 2deg (numbers made up but you get the idea).
Old photo but you get the gist...
A video example of my issue
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aCK4Bob6a0[/youtube]
I can't change the angle of the top shaft, since it needs to clear the engine but I could make it a little shorter which would soften the top angle a little but while making the bottom angle even shallower too.
Only other thing I can do, is rotate the rack around its axis and raise it a little. I made the mounts with 20mm of adjustment upward, so the raising isn't much of an problem but if I rotate it, then I run into the issue of how do I fix it to the car, and the fact it'll clash with the chassis rail you can see under he bottom joint in the photo, this needs more thinking....
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