Re: [doc] RHD steering rack

[Martin Gutkowski - DMC Ltd <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Harding looked at this route on his car and came up with two problems

1) The rack assembly must be *exactly* the same length as the original, 
with the track rods plus rod ends being precisely the same too otherwise 
you'll get bump steer
2) The rack itself is to put it mildly, critical to the safety of the 
car. It's high tensile hardened steel and would you trust one that's 
been cut and re-attached, however well done?

He used a non-PAS Granada rack which turned out to be exactly the right 
length, but 4 turns lock-to-lock. Longer track rod ends and the neat 
feature that the steering knuckles join up further towards the centre, 
neatly avoiding the coolant pipe that really does get in the way on the 
original RHD's. THis rack is somewhat rare though.

Martin

tracey ann steele wrote:

>I did`nt want to tell anyone which rack we used in case it did`nt 
>work. Well today it was all conected up so I can let the world know. 
>We got two Ford Cortina racks and had them joined together by a local 
>firm that does specialist engineering jobs. If anyone needs any help 
>or advice please contact us and we will pleased to assist. It cost us 
>less than £200, plus we can still sell on the LHD rack to raise some 
>cash. Picture of the rack in the car are in my picture file.
>Tracey
>vin 6484
>marti
>RHD
>  
>




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