VANAGON archives -- July 2021, week 3 (#37)

Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2021 16:15:36 -0700 Reply-To: alex@MEVAY.ORG Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com> From: Alex MeVay <alex@MEVAY.ORG> Subject: Re: Non-garbage manual steering racks? Comments: To: Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@hotmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CY4PR0801MB37317B027DF5D49CCB297029A0E19@CY4PR0801MB3731.namprd08.prod.outlook.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"

Hi Dennis, et al.,

I ended up pulling the rack. Inside the rack on the passenger side, there is a tubular bushing that is held in with a circlip and goes around the rack. This had totally disintegrated, leaving that end of the rack to flop around. The tie rods were fine and still properly screwed in.

I still had the steering rack I had previously removed, where this bushing is merely (prematurely) worn, so I put that back in so I could reasonably keep driving.

I'll begin checking with our vendors, but I would very much appreciate any pointers to more durable manual rack options that don't involve custom-fabricating delrin bushings... Thanks,

Alex

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