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Re: TD rack and pinion noise fix

To: mgs4dave@warwick.net
Subject: Re: TD rack and pinion noise fix
From: dmeadow@juno.com
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 16:48:04 -0500
That's great to know, Dave.  But what the @#%# is a "damper boss?"  Is
that when your supervisor is wetter than my supervisor?  But seriously, I
recently had my steering rack apart and don't recall anything that looked
like a damper boss and I don't recall any reference to such an animal in
the manual.

I do have a little freeplay on one side of my rack where the round
dohickey screws onto the rack itself (how much you want to bet that
_dohickey_ is in the manual).  Horst Schach's book tells me to unscrew it
and then use some emery paper on a flat surface to get it to fit closer. 
Unfortunately, I couldn't even get the blessed thing off to do the emery
paper deal.  Is the damper boss related to that?

David Littlefield
Houston, TX


On Wed, 30 Jul 1997 17:00:24 +0000 Dave Houser <mgs4dave@warwick.net>
writes:
>Thanks to all who offered some ideas on my clunk from the TD rack
>housing. Took a spare rack and pinion (don't we all have these on the
>shelf?) over to Rob Medynski in NJ and he drilled and tapped the right
>side damper boss(for either left or right hand drive, remember). I 
>will
>pick up and hopefully this will tighten up the rack and eliminate the
>clunk. Greg Prehodka did this fix on his racer TD, too and fixed the
>problem, so I'm optimistic.
>If you notice a sharp clunk at slow speed over any surface, this is 
>the
>only fix for it.
>Cheers,
>Dave Houser
>Dave Houser
>

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