Redesigned steering rack support assembly

[spud69]

Originally Posted by Bonzo

I like the design aspect of that revised steering rack support

Thanks to Voucht for sharing the photographs & thanks to Mopple for sharing the design.

For my own personal taste, the book spec steering rack support does indeed look a bit flimsy & was one of the areas that I was intending to rework.

That said, I am not saying that the book set up is wrong.

That is a nice design and does rectify some slight issues with the rack support brackets. We have found to date that the 3mm plate around the oval holes can bend up under tension from the bolts towards the rack clamps making the bolts appear to have slackened. We have always advised a 5mm plate to be cut and used on the underside of the rack support to strengthen the plate and stop it bending up. This has rectified this problem, however, your design does give added strength to support the rack supports.

Similar to the 3mm plate for the clutch pedal, i would always recommend that people use 5mm plate for these as 3mm is too flimsy for the clutch effort needed.

Cheers....AndyH

[CTWV50]

Originally Posted by spud69

That is a nice design and does rectify some slight issues with the rack support brackets. We have found to date that the 3mm plate around the oval holes can bend up under tension from the bolts towards the rack clamps making the bolts appear to have slackened. We have always advised a 5mm plate to be cut and used on the underside of the rack support to strengthen the plate and stop it bending up. This has rectified this problem, however, your design does give added strength to support the rack supports.

Similar to the 3mm plate for the clutch pedal, i would always recommend that people use 5mm plate for these as 3mm is too flimsy for the clutch effort needed.

Cheers....AndyH

If you'll be supplying these Andy, I'll take one!