Date:         Mon, 19 Jul 2021 21:54:05 -0400
Reply-To:     "kenneth wilford (Van-Again)" <kenwilfy@COMCAST.NET>
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From:         "kenneth wilford (Van-Again)" <kenwilfy@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Re: Non-garbage manual steering racks?
Comments: To: Alex MeVay <alex@mevay.org>
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I am seeing some NOS units available from Germany if you want to spend some
money.  Also VW Heritage has their own brand new version of it.  But they
are most likely made in Taiwan and I have no experience with them.

Ken

On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 7:16 PM Alex MeVay <alex@mevay.org> wrote:

> 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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Ken Wilford
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