08-06-2020, 09:25 AM
Hi Nick,
there is a firm here (in NZ) who have the technology and, it seems, the certification to overhaul/modify steering/suspension joints and can incorporate any taper on the rod end pins that you might want in the rebuild process. In my case, I had some Ford 5000 tractor tie rod ends (which fortuitously happened to have the correct female thread) re-pinned to match the tapers in my 'Not-An-Austin-Seven' steering arms on my 'Not-An-Austin-Seven' at a very moderate cost, which turned out to be a lot less than I would've spent on the NOS set which I (much) later came across.
I would be surprised if there wasn't someone, somewhere in the UK doing the same thing?
I have also seen taper reamers used on steering arms, and also steering arms heated and the existing bore drifted with a suitably tapered drift [or even a sacrificial ball joint] to match up tapers [car Bogans...enough said] but maybe A7 ones are too light to survive these dodgy practices.
Regards
AGW
there is a firm here (in NZ) who have the technology and, it seems, the certification to overhaul/modify steering/suspension joints and can incorporate any taper on the rod end pins that you might want in the rebuild process. In my case, I had some Ford 5000 tractor tie rod ends (which fortuitously happened to have the correct female thread) re-pinned to match the tapers in my 'Not-An-Austin-Seven' steering arms on my 'Not-An-Austin-Seven' at a very moderate cost, which turned out to be a lot less than I would've spent on the NOS set which I (much) later came across.
I would be surprised if there wasn't someone, somewhere in the UK doing the same thing?
I have also seen taper reamers used on steering arms, and also steering arms heated and the existing bore drifted with a suitably tapered drift [or even a sacrificial ball joint] to match up tapers [car Bogans...enough said] but maybe A7 ones are too light to survive these dodgy practices.
Regards
AGW