Page 1 of 1

UJ to rack bolt ?

Posted: Sun May 08, 2011 11:51 am
by stylussprinter
Just checking the Stylus camber and generally looking for trouble ---- there's a little slack in the steering again and have recently fitted a new rack and ally mounts . Then I noticed the slack is in the UJ to rack spindle even though the threaded bolt is right up tight :? The UJ is threaded right through so I hadn't put a nyloc on the other end .Seeing as the body of the UJ is split it's obviously intended to close a little . Wondering if I got the right rack ie spindle diam or spline wise :roll: What have you guys used and is there any play once tightened up :?:

Re: UJ to rack bolt ?

Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 10:33 am
by mikeb
hi Rob,

There is no play in the joint when the bolt is tight. From memory the splines go together only one
way, with a few of the splines on the male part blanked off and located in the corresponding female part.

Well done at Goodwood.
Mike

Re: UJ to rack bolt ?

Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 3:07 pm
by stylussprinter
mikeb wrote:hi Rob,

There is no play in the joint when the bolt is tight. From memory the splines go together only one
way, with a few of the splines on the male part blanked off and located in the corresponding female part.

Well done at Goodwood.
Mike
Many thanks Mike for the congrat's 8)

This morning I have realised my error regarding the UJ to spline bolting . When I built the car in 1999 I must have put it together correctly by chance then changing the rack this season I changed the bolt too . Noticing the UJ was threaded I assumed it was threaded right through so just put a bolt in --- no nut . Having looked with a torch and mirror I now see that half has no thread . So put another new bolt in from the threaded end ( it then passes through the other half of non threaded ) then plonked on a spring washer plus nyloc for good luck and clamped it up very tight --- that closed the slot a little in the UJ and all is now totally secure . It wouldn't clamp up by putting the bolt in from the non threaded end and tightening it to pull the threaded end up tight ------- took me a while for that to dawn on me though :lol: