AKimball92
True Classic
I am experiencing a weird play in my steering rack. While driving there is no vibrations, like I experienced in the old rack that came with the car. While in a corner the steering will shift when steering under load. It can be anticipated. The shift is not a clunk or vibration but a smooth sliiiiide over a few degrees. It happens in both directions back and forth. after the slide the steering wheel can be a few degrees off center one way then the other. You can predict it under moderate load going through the twisties but it suuure doesn't boost confidence to make it out the other side.
I got under the dash today to look and I notice a definite in/out motion of the column to the rack of about 3 mm. The wheel also moves this in/out forward/back motion compared to the plastic cover or column mounts. If the rack and pinion is helicoil in nature i think this would just be the pinion gear sliding up and down the width of the rack.
Is this just an adjustment to the steering rack shims? From my understanding to tighten the rack I just need to remove a shim #4 in the image attached. Or could it be shim #12 and/or the upper #11 and lower #10 bearings being worn or out of spec?
I got under the dash today to look and I notice a definite in/out motion of the column to the rack of about 3 mm. The wheel also moves this in/out forward/back motion compared to the plastic cover or column mounts. If the rack and pinion is helicoil in nature i think this would just be the pinion gear sliding up and down the width of the rack.
Is this just an adjustment to the steering rack shims? From my understanding to tighten the rack I just need to remove a shim #4 in the image attached. Or could it be shim #12 and/or the upper #11 and lower #10 bearings being worn or out of spec?