18-12-2017, 10:41 PM
The only time I've had a steering arm fail was at the other end of the drag link, the arm on the steering box. This was on an hourglass type box; they don't get so much publicity but are just as weak if not weaker.
The car (a late Ruby) failed to turn right after the arm snapped and I hit a stationary Vauxhall Viva HB, waiting to turn out, somewhere around the front N/S wheel. The whole front of the Viva was shifted over by a couple of inches toward the O/S, quite a wreck!
I was upset; the collision had bent my starting handle and broken a perfectly good, original headlamp glass. As my only car, it was back on the road later that day.
That was 1979, the car was only forty years old. Should have taken it back under warranty................
The car (a late Ruby) failed to turn right after the arm snapped and I hit a stationary Vauxhall Viva HB, waiting to turn out, somewhere around the front N/S wheel. The whole front of the Viva was shifted over by a couple of inches toward the O/S, quite a wreck!
I was upset; the collision had bent my starting handle and broken a perfectly good, original headlamp glass. As my only car, it was back on the road later that day.
That was 1979, the car was only forty years old. Should have taken it back under warranty................