<VV> Getting rid of sterring lash.

[Charles Lee]

I'm just getting to the nitty gritty of this steering mechanism, and found 
my lash and play problem to be just the top wormshaft bearing that was 
completely disintegrated, giving too much end play, plus side play of the 
wormshaft so it didn't align with the pitman "sector" shaft.

Seems like that one bearing caused all that problem, and also scored the 
upper wormshaft race.

I'm trying to remedy a similar problem and my current strategy is to cut the 
upper race to remove the scoring/pitting caused by the bad upper bearing :

See attached pix (pix seem to be added way down the bottom of the email).
Link :
http://www.yourbuyersinn.com/Cars/Corvair/1967MonzaSteeringBoxRepair.htm

Estimated cost to cut the upper race (if you can't cut it yourself) is 
$25-$50 ?

Charlie



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bryan Blackwell" <bryan at skiblack.com>
To: "Brian" <bmoneill at juno.com>
Cc: <VirtualVairs at corvair.org>; <fastvair at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 11:26 AM
Subject: Re: <VV> Getting rid of sterring lash.


>the adjusting screw is almost all the way in.  Is it the Pittman shaft and 
>gear or the worm and nut assembly.

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