19-08-2024, 04:12 PM
(02-08-2024, 09:38 AM)Alan Wrote: Apart from the later ones and sports versions, aren’t they all the same? I’ve probably got one somewhere, Dave.
Very definitely not!
I rebuilt my Chummy fifteen years ago and the original box was cracked on the thread locking area. I rashly assumed that all steering boxes are the same and fitted the innards to a Box Saloon type aluminium casting but had a lot of trouble fitting it to the car. The column is at slightly the wrong angle, so it's very tight under the dash and it puts the wheel about 3/4" towards the centre of the car, messing up the mounting holes alignment. The Chummy still has the wrong box forced in because it actually steers very nicely; I have a correct, vintage box in the garage all ready to fit but don't see the point at the moment.
Visually, you can tell the vintage box as it's more "bulbous", the later kind are more "conical"
Vintage tourers/saloons, XL896 or 1A6025
Later cars 1A6068/1A6075/1A6084
Not sure when the changeover was, 1930 perhaps? With the steel body?