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Fitting steering rack raisers
Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 12:49 pm
by Scottd
A few folk recommend fitting these when going to S2 suspension w the 110/120 ride height so thought I'd give it a go....
OK so I unscrew the bolts accesable from the footwell.. and put the rack raiser where the 'Height setting plate' goes. What about the pop rivet?
Don't mine look upside down compared w the diagram??
Anything else to watch for? I'm not too sure I understand how adding the raisers there actually raises anything, but hey
Scott
Re: Fitting steering rack raisers
Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 1:02 pm
by DDtB
Beam me up Scotty... wrote:
Don't mine look upside down compared w the diagram??
Scott
Try turning the camera the other way up.... that should sort it!
Re: Fitting steering rack raisers
Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 1:23 pm
by Scottd
tedbakerman wrote:Beam me up Scotty... wrote:
Don't mine look upside down compared w the diagram??
Scott
Try turning the camera the other way up.... that should sort it!
Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 1:31 pm
by Shug
Pop rivet - drill out and forget. The new plates don't need it - I guess it's just there to aid first assembly.
Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 2:41 pm
by Scottd
See that Dave, it's called constructive advice
scott
Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 4:02 pm
by DDtB
Scotty says.... I just cannae dae it captain .... I doooont have the powerrrrrrrrr! wrote:See that Dave, it's called constructive advice
scott
Hey... my solution would've worked tooo....
Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 4:20 pm
by robin
Shug wrote:Pop rivet - drill out and forget. The new plates don't need it - I guess it's just there to aid first assembly.
I have never fitted these, but to me it looks as though the holes in the chassis are slotted to allow the rack to move up/down. The point of the rivet could be to stop the plate shifting about during assembly - what other reference point is there to actually set the correct height of the rack?
Cheers,
Robin
Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 4:31 pm
by Shug
robin wrote:Shug wrote:Pop rivet - drill out and forget. The new plates don't need it - I guess it's just there to aid first assembly.
I have never fitted these, but to me it looks as though the holes in the chassis are slotted to allow the rack to move up/down. The point of the rivet could be to stop the plate shifting about during assembly - what other reference point is there to actually set the correct height of the rack?
Cheers,
Robin
Arse. You're absolutely right... I was sure somebody told me to drill out and forget when I was thinking about it, but a quick search confirms you'll need to rivet the new ones on in the old rivet hole....
Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 6:17 pm
by Scottd
Is the whole job done frm inside the footwell? Doesn't the rack drop down at the back once you unscrew the bolts?
scott
Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 8:17 pm
by Scottd
Did it earlier, wasn't too hard to do, had to file down a socket to get it to fit tho.
Certainly feels very different!
scott
Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 8:53 pm
by simon
How does it feel different?
Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 10:34 pm
by Scottd
Well I just went round the block to see if it (and my hour in the Loti position) had made any difference. The steering is back to tugging slightly at low speed breaking with sharp cambers. But it's at faster speeds that's impostant I guess, so we'll see. To get a true comparison really I would of had to of gotten the Geo done with the old rack setting. It felt good but wrong then, and even more so now, if you know what I mean
scott