All the Healey's from the BN2 thru the BJ8 have the Belleville washers in
the steering box. They are installed in an alternate fashion to create a
spring effect on the steering rocker shaft.
The steering pegs changed from a fixed peg to a rotating peg when the box
went to an aluminium box. I would assume to make a little smoother steering
box.
David Nock
healeydoc at sbcglobal.net
209 948 8767
www.britishcarspecialists.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Spidell
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2017 7:56 AM
To: healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] belleville washers
Curious--to me--that, according to the Moss catalog--early steering
boxes (BN1/early BN2) and later boxes (late BN4/6-BJ8) had a mechanism
so that the peg could rotate. The early boxes used ball bearings, and
the later boxes used roller bearings but the 'mid' box pegs were pressed
in. The early and late box pegs were also spring-loaded; but the mid
boxes had pegs fixed in place. Presumably, the rotate-able pegs would
last longer--as would the worm (cam)--and might have better steering
feel. The belleville washer setup was probably cheaper, but seems like
a half-arsed solution to me.
On 1/11/2017 8:52 PM, Bob Spidell wrote:
> The consensus--here and on the forum--is that they should be stacked
> 'back-to-back;' like ()()()
>
> Makes sense to me; although )()()( would probably work as well.
> Apparently, they are to act somewhat like a spring.
>
> Bob
>
>
>
>
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