Come on Randall,
If, as I suspect, you are rebuilding your new TR3 project then stop mucking
around with worms & pegs - "bite the bullet" and put in a good rack& pinion
conversion.
In my 25 years of owning TS3612 the single most impressive improvement I
made was converting to rack & pinion steering several years ago. The
troubles involved in getting a good setup with the original design, let
alone maintaining it, are well documented on the list, and lets face it
Triumph fixed it themselves in the TR4.
I used the Revington conversion, the mounting brackets are very well
designed and fit well, and they supply all the necessary parts to convert
the column properly. Once welded in and the rack mounted it looks just as
if the factory designed it that way. OK it is not cheap, but it is well
engineered and your conversion rate to the UK pound is better than ours. As
an added extra the conversion also corrects some of the steering geometry
deficiencies in the original design. There are other cheaper conversions
around but I believe theirs is the best.
Another added bonus it that the steering becomes significantly lighter at
parking speed, a much needed improvement with modern wider radial tyres.
Go on, fit it. I guarantee you will not be disappointed.
regards from "The Deep South"
(where it is just coming up to early summer,
& I took the TR out for a drive in shirt-sleeves this morning)
Alan
>Message: 8
>Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:07:36 -0700
>From: "Randall" <tr3driver@ca.rr.com>
>Subject: [TR] TR2-3 steering worm installation
>To: "Triumphs" <triumphs@autox.team.net>
>Message-ID: <20071027040737.CAPX29317.mta9.adelphia.net@randall>
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>Moss seems to offer the worm itself, but not the steering shaft that it's
>mounted on. Has anyone tried replacing their worm ?
>
>I see that TRF offers "rebuilt" assemblies for less than the worm from Moss;
>but I have a good worm on a bad shaft plus a bad worm on a good shaft ...
>
>Any comments about the procedure or results would be appreciated.
>
>Randall
>
>
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