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Old 29th June 2009, 09:00 PM
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if you can hang on till tomorrow i,ll check the measurement of mine, i can,t remember if 288mm is too wide which is why i had to grind a bit off each support to make the rack fit & keep it central.
sorry but my chassis isn,t at my home.

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Old 29th June 2009, 09:06 PM
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I almost postive this is correct, but do not have my car here to measure it. I have found another error on page 177 CP21. I think the 228 mm dim should read 225 mm. Then when you add the 2 x 30 mm width of the 2 plates, its adds up. I am going to have to go and calulate the geometry now or I will not sleep tonight!
that is the reason my rack didn,t fit at first, as it caused the CP19 & cp20 to be too wide.

can check tomorrow for you.

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Old 29th June 2009, 09:11 PM
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I've packed up for tonight thanks Andy so if you can find out by tomorrow that would be great. Might have another crack when I get back from work tomo.

Thanks Chris.
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Old 29th June 2009, 09:20 PM
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no prob, will measure it in the morning & put post up as soon as i get home, ( approx 2pm)

i do remember that this annoyed me a little as i made it spot on ( as per book) but it didn,t fit the rack.

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Old 29th June 2009, 09:30 PM
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I've just spent my Sunday grinding off the old steering rack supports, because they were too close (my mistake as much as anything). I now have the 2 x 30mm plates a little further apart than the book dims, and it seems to fit much better.

The second time around I had the luxury of the rack to hand. So I just made it to suit the rack. Easy peasy.
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Old 30th June 2009, 03:45 PM
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got the measurements from my rack supports as promised.

288mm from outer edges of supports
230mm from inner edges of supports

so it appears that my supports are now 29mm wide instead of 30mm plate, as said i had to grind off a little on each OUTER edge to let the lugs/bracket part of the rack fittings sit flush with the CP19 CP20,

i also think it had something to do with the welds on the rack itself, so it is easier if you have the rack to aid the final placing of the supports.

hope this helps.

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Old 30th June 2009, 06:52 PM
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Thanks for checking for me i really appreciate it. What would you reccommend then do you think the plates should be 288mm from one side to another? instead of 285, did the mounting holes for your rack line up ok then at 258 but not the edges. Thanks Chris.
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Old 6th June 2010, 10:27 PM
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When I place the rack on the supports it seems like I would have to grind of a couple of mm from the brackets width to get the rubber supports to fit, is this common?
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Old 15th October 2012, 08:38 AM
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I have also had this problem! The measurements are wrong! I went to the outer edge measurement as this was easiest to measure and work to. But if you think about it the plates are 30mm wide so centre holes are 15mm in, take this(15mm either side) from the outer measurement(285mm) it does not give you 258mm! It's gives you 255! I presume the measurement of the rack is 258mm? Things like the really annoy me as you don't know it's wrong until you have done the work then scratched ya head for hours and remeasured your work time and time again!! Glad I didn't pay for the book!
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