04-05-2020, 01:54 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-05-2020, 01:56 PM by Howard Wright.
Edit Reason: Referred to wrong car!
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Hi Sam
From the car and classics photos your front axle is located very well so shouldn’t skip around. May be the steering box isn’t adjusted correctly? I would disconnect the drag link (steering side tube in Austin parlance) and see how much play there is on the drop arm.
The steering box gears do tend to wear In one place (generally in the straight ahead position) however adjusting the mesh should get things tolerable.
I have seen somewhere that the allowable play in a worm gearbox for MOT purposes equates to 3” at the steering wheel. This always seemed too much to me!
Lovely special by the way!
Oops realised that this is not your car. In which case check the location of the front axle!
Cheers
Howard
From the car and classics photos your front axle is located very well so shouldn’t skip around. May be the steering box isn’t adjusted correctly? I would disconnect the drag link (steering side tube in Austin parlance) and see how much play there is on the drop arm.
The steering box gears do tend to wear In one place (generally in the straight ahead position) however adjusting the mesh should get things tolerable.
I have seen somewhere that the allowable play in a worm gearbox for MOT purposes equates to 3” at the steering wheel. This always seemed too much to me!
Lovely special by the way!
Oops realised that this is not your car. In which case check the location of the front axle!
Cheers
Howard