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Steering Rack Woes ..
Posted by phil [Email] (more from phil) on Sun, 2 Jul 2006 22:28:47
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Well finally swapped out my rack. Low down on my list of fun Saab jobs.
The trick to rotating the rack to get it in and out seems to be to rotate the input shaft right by the speedo drive. Jacking the rear of the tranny slightly seemed to help a lot.
It does seem to have fixed the stiff steering problem I was having. The intermediate shaft was perfect.
Two problems .. I carefully measured from the ridge on where the boot goes over to the tie rod end, with calipers. The Eeuroparts rebuilt rack must have different shaft lengths. It was way off. Odd.
The local dealer sold me the wrong size orings for the hoses .. I cheated and used the old ones. Bad idea .. very slow leak. I sure hope I can tighten them a bit more or replace the orings without more rack surgury!
The $500 in indy labor for the R and R is looking a whole lot better!
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