[DeTomaso] steering slop

[Tom Shinrock]

I had the same problem over 20 years ago.   I went to a hobby store and bought various thicknesses of brass sheet stock and made up some shims to take up the slack.   Worked good then and is still working.

Tom
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-----Original Message-----
From: Justin Greisberg <justingreisberg at hotmail.com>
To: detomaso <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Mon, Jun 25, 2012 7:54 pm
Subject: [DeTomaso] steering slop



As I sort out the many minor problems that make my 74 GTS restoration less than 
perfect (things like leaking head gaskets, problematic EFI, door windows that 
just wont go, A fuel gauge that keep reading zero until I figured out I actually 
had no gas in the tank!), I have come to the steering.  There is a little too 
much play in the steering.  Some of that play is in the rack - I rebuilt the 
rack myself (added a new rack bushing and replaced the rubber bellows), and when 
I was done there was a bit of play in the gears.  But, based on the advice of 
many people here on the forum, I left the spacers on the preload device behind 
the rack just as stock, rather than add more preload to decrease play.So, I know 
there will be a little play.  But there is more play in the steering column, at 
the "slip joint" where one piece of linkage slides into another.  I tried to 
pinch this in a vice, which really did not work, and I added rolled up sections 
of aluminum foil to take up the space bu
 t still allow it to slide in an accident, but this loosened up quickly.
Any ssuggestions?  I could weld the two pieces of slip tubing together so no 
more play, but it seems nice to try to preserve the sliding feature for safety.  
Although I doubt I would survive a collision of that magnitude in this car...  
The thought of that steering wheel hitting me in the chest is really scary.   
Justin 		 	   		  
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