Robert Cox wrote:
>
> Dean Crowley wrote:
> >
> > The east west seem to be
> > a gap up in the inner ball joint.
> > I really don't want to take the boots off and mess with
> > the inner ball joint in the other end of the rack.
>
> It may pay to remove the boot and have a look. I had a lot of play on on
> end of the rack on my MGA and assumed it was wear. I eventually took the
> boot off and found that the ball joint screws into the end of the rack
> and has some kind of lock flange hammered into indentations (something
> like that... it's 8 years since I did it). This flange had been bashed
> so many times it really wasn't locking anything and the ball joint had
> screwed loose. I put some loctite on the thread and hammered the locking
> flange as best I could. It's been fine the past 8 years.
Worth whatever trouble it takes to find out what's wrong; not good to
suddenly lose steering, possibly fatal.
-Rock
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