Right you are, David (as usual). The drawing shows them off to the side
of the rocker, not on it like the late BN2 box, and I missed it.
I wonder what the story is; were the rotatable, spring-loaded pegs or
belleville washers alone not sufficient, so they went to both in the
later boxes ('belt-and-suspenders')?
On 1/12/2017 9:06 AM, David Nock wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.
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> David Nock
> healeydoc at sbcglobal.net
> 209 948 8767
> www.britishcarspecialists.com
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> -----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.
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