Date:         Sat, 18 Jun 2016 19:23:23 +0000
Reply-To:     Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Power Steering rack
Comments: To: Neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
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Thanks! I see that , the nut with two flat sides is peened into the slot. I had known this before years ago, just forgot.
Robert1982 Westfalia



      From: Neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
 To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
 Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2016 11:11 AM
 Subject: Re: Power Steering rack

On the manual steering rack, the collar on large inner tie rod end nut
gets peened into the slot on rack end when installing tie rod. My
guess is that the PS and manual rack share
the same tie rod assemblies. I can't recall exactly what I did to
unlock that nut, but
it probably involved some time consuming method since rack was mounted.
Unmounted, I'd guess that one could move that metal out of the slot
with careful use of
a narrow cold chisel or the like and ball peen hammer. In fact this is
probably what I did.

image, nut installed on 1981 manual rack:
https://sites.google.com/site/tubaneil2/InnerTieRodEndDS.jpg

I shaped a somewhat square end to cold chisel then used that to peen
the collar into the
slot. That collar metal is not hard and is fairly thin.

Be sure to support the rack in vice as shown in Bentley when removing,
installing inner
tie rod end; you don't want to twist the rack.

Neil.

On 6/17/16, Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@yahoo.com> wrote:


>.... I see the Bentlry
> shows a picture of some kind of tool fitting a notch with no step by step
> explanation.



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Neil n

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