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10th June 2022, 20:42 | #1 |
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Stiff heavy steering
As you will know, I recently got my 75 back from a garage which fitted my replacement engine. The "careless mechanic" left a few issues, most of which the garage (minus said mechanic) has resolved. Only two left, this is the niggling one.
The steering is heavy and stiff, wont return on its own, not like that before it went in. Now I have looked back at some old forum posts, and tried the fix of loosening central shocker nut, bouncing front of car twisting then tightening, also checking the triple upper mounting bolts (two on one side, one on the other needed quite some tightening. Made very slight difference I think. I also had the tracking laser checked. Now the odd thing, and the reason I'm asking here is that I get something I've never experienced on any steering rack vehicle, but have on old worm and peg steering boxes. (thats going back a bit, eh?) When the car's been standing all night, and the weather has not been warm, so the steering rack is cold, the steering is almost normal, but as the steering is used, generating friction, it gets stiffer and heavier. If its a warm day or night, the steering is really heavy. I've checked fluid levels of course. Any ideas, please.
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11th June 2022, 07:28 | #2 |
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Hi Paul.
I have read through your threads on the engine swap over, and it seems that the power steering as not been right from the start, therefore it's the garages fault so they still need to rectify this for you, what garage did you use ? It can only be a fluid problem surely, unless the power steering pump is faulty have they checked that out for you?
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11th June 2022, 07:44 | #3 |
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Its going back to the garage on Wednesday, I've told them what I said in my post. plus will mention pump.
Very annoying, but at least the engine SEEMS to be OK over the last 500 miles I covered with it.
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Fascinated to learn the outcome of paulbn61’s steering issue?
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