Has anyone fitted all of the seals supplied as a kit for the steering rack and control valve pinion assembly?
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Ok. No one likes a trick question. Lets change the question then. I've just overhauled my steering rack and pinion assy, replacing every seal I could find.
Look at the attached photo, the upper picture shows the multitude of seals that arrived this morning, some have already been fitted to the piston ring and cylinder sleeve.
This evening I completed the reassembly,
. Now look at the lower pictureshowing the seals I didn't use.
Where do they go?:?.
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A bit like the BBQ I assembled last weekend, after which I was left with a handfull of spare nuts and bolts etc.
Bruce
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Bruce, I don't know how detailed you restoration is going to be, but trust me it going to be far more detailed and more expensive than you ever planned. When you pay for a kit of spares, wouldn't it be nice to know what your getting? Wouldn't be even better to have some kind of instructions to tell what they're for?! Any one need some spare seals?
John
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Yep; I had a few left over seals when I did mine. As there were two type of control valve I just assumed the kit included seals for both.
Agreed it would be nice if there was some description supplied with the seal to help identification.
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Hi John
I agree with your comments about the usefulness of instructions being included. I also agree with your commenst about costs:shock:As regards the steering rack I am planning on simply removing if off the other car, clean it up and then fit it on the project as I believe that it is operating fine. Saves a bit of money in the short term. I will overhaul the other rack at my leisure when time and funds permit.
Hope your rack works well when you fit it.
Cheers
Bruce
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I've overhauled a few and always have spares left over, assuming they're for different pinions or even kit covers several cars.
The one piece I wish they'd include is the the plastic ring next to the rack seals as easy to break.
Has anyone found a reliable way of changing the pinion plastic rings? I fitted my last by warming the ring in water then sliding it down the kneck of a J20 bottle to expand it (lots of vaseline) then pushing into place on the pinion. Compressing it down was a problem tho.
Paul
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I had to replace the plastic pinion seal rings, I'd removed the old (probably still perfectly functional) rings before realising how difficult the new ones where to refit, hindsight etc.
I had a length of 1 1/2" o/d st.st. dairy tube which I cut lengthwise through one side. I then was able to collapse the tube to form a taper, the small end large enough to slide theall the rings over. The hard part was opening up the collapsed tube to fit over the pinion barrel, this was achieved by driving an old file handle, the file end asnug fit into the end of the tube, the larger hand end of the handle then gradually opening out the tube the further it was driven down. Eventually the pinion barrel took over,after that,it was a simple job to slide the tube to an adjacent a seal grooveand slide off the relevant seal ring, all four took less than a minute! And as the rings where the only thing holding the tube tight to the barrel once thelast was removed the tube simply openedfree from the barrel andremoved.
Now the rings did seem exceedingly slack and I did wonder if I had done the right thing. Just for the hell of it, thinking I'd heard it before somewhere and Ihad nothing to loose I popped the barrel and rings into a pan of boiling water, poaching style, for a few minutes, after which they did seem to close up closer to their original size, but still lack. Re fitting the barrel onto the pinion, hopefully the right way (there is a 180 Deg alternative), then sliding the whole caboodle into the housing, I found that with the housing's huge taper lead-in, the rings slid in, in a very satisfying way, very pleasing.
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