Steering rack,

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[Hasbeen]

Spyder, that is a very sore point.

He has been trying to get some leave for quite some time, but it appears that our entire navy would grind to a halt, or perhaps sink, if he were absent.

His lady has just returned from 12 months in England, & he had arranged a couple of weeks leave, one week of which they were to spend up here.

However the day before she arrived some catastrophe befell the navy, which apparently only he was able to fix, & he disappeared for 16 days.

Must be nice to be needed mustn't it?

Hasbeen

[Odd]

The RHD rack we took out of dads '81 TR7V8 (when I fitted the RHD PAS) looks just like the one in Jolyons picture.

[Hasbeen]

Looking at that rack photo again, perhaps the alloy externally threaded bit is actually a set screw, with the pinion pad & spring housed in it, as they are in the nut in the ones I have.

The steel nut could be a lock nut, so the rest of the rack could be the same. The adjustment of the pinion pad would be more messy, but it would work.

In that case Odd, it does look like a very late change, near the end of production. Triumph, they always were out to get us, when ever we weren't looking.

Hasbeen

[prlee]

Hasbeen, I had been waiting over 30yrs for a sensible, small, hd, easy to use, easy to produce and edit, reliable (no screw ups in developing or storage), no dark room, long lasting photographic system.

It arrive some years ago - I now even have a smart phone [:D].

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[Cobber]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Century Gothic, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Hasbeen</i>

Spyder, that is a very sore point.

He has been trying to get some leave for quite some time, but it appears that our entire navy would grind to a halt, or perhaps sink, if he were absent.

His lady has just returned from 12 months in England, & he had arranged a couple of weeks leave, one week of which they were to spend up here.

However the day before she arrived some catastrophe befell the navy, which apparently only he was able to fix, & he disappeared for 16 days.

Must be nice to be needed mustn't it?

Hasbeen
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<font size="2">Now Hasbeen as an old salt you should know the Royal Australian Navy doesn't have catastrophes at random. The Navy puts many months of careful planning by dozens of senior officers, defence annalists and ministerial staffers into each and every catastrophe.
How else but through careful, considered and thorough planning can they stuff up everyone's leave plans with such regularity? </font id="Comic Sans MS"></font id="size2">

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[Jolyon39]

I have checked..... the Steering rack came from a 1981 model TR7.

I will post images of the earlier rack for you tonight.



Jolyon

[Hasbeen]

Thanks Jolyon, that makes sence.

Do you know how you adjust the pressure on the pinion in that one?

Hasbeen

[Jolyon39]

Hi Phil,

I never took down the rack, I took it to a shop for a once over and they just returned it in good order. Not something I have ever played with as yet.

Apparently during disassembly the main nut was so tough they thought something would sheer.

Jolyon

[claypole1360]

Just to add, we have had a good look at the rack today and there is lots of up and down movement in the arms as they come out of the pinion housing, we think a bush may have worn and I suspect that it lacks grease, will be buying a new or recon rack soon.
Cheers Calvin

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