Steering Woes

Post Sat Sep 30, 2006 1:07 pm

Is there any common faults on the steering.

Lately my sport feels quite unsafe at 80mph +

There is no real feel and its like you are not in control.

Seems to wander slightly sometimes as well.

i changed the rubber uj on the steering shaft and have jacked the front up and to see if anything obvious is loose or worn but i see nothing.

Any suggestions guys ?

Post Sat Sep 30, 2006 1:11 pm

had a similar thing on a tourer changed the drop links quick easy & cheap made a huge differance

Post Sat Sep 30, 2006 1:15 pm

and the rubber coupling on steering cloumn

Post Sat Sep 30, 2006 1:17 pm

is another suspect
lower arm bushes
ball joints tie rod ends all need to be checked
Pas rack ???

Post Sat Sep 30, 2006 1:19 pm

and who is the bird

Post Sat Sep 30, 2006 1:31 pm

Sure it's not rear steer from worn rear beam bushes?

Post Sat Sep 30, 2006 1:38 pm

wot are drop links ?

rear steer ? i changed the trailing arm bushes late last year .

no idea who the bird is but she is luverly !

Post Sat Sep 30, 2006 2:01 pm

drop links are short bars 4-5" approx that connect to the front wish bones to the anti roll bar on each end, about 10 quid from GFS easy job

Post Sat Sep 30, 2006 2:21 pm

mine aint feelin to good either got any idea what a knockin noise comeing from the stearing wheel could be when driveing over a bumpy road?

Post Sat Sep 30, 2006 2:41 pm

Brianmoooore wrote:Sure it's not rear steer from worn rear beam bushes?

seems exactly that to me!

Post Sat Sep 30, 2006 2:46 pm

Number one rule when doing any fault finding - check through the last work that was carried out.

Post Sat Sep 30, 2006 2:47 pm

gilb wrote:mine aint feelin to good either got any idea what a knockin noise comeing from the stearing wheel could be when driveing over a bumpy road?

Could be many things, but the last one I did about a month ago was a worn rack.

Post Sat Sep 30, 2006 3:24 pm

is that one bush either side ?

How much of a cnut of a job to change them.

i did the trailing arm ones and that wasn't too much of a pain

Post Sat Sep 30, 2006 6:10 pm

Brianmoooore wrote:
gilb wrote:mine aint feelin to good either got any idea what a knockin noise comeing from the stearing wheel could be when driveing over a bumpy road?
Could be many things, but the last one I did about a month ago was a worn rack.

ah cheers dude that will b due to the lack of power stering fluid as i have a leak lol

Post Sat Sep 30, 2006 7:24 pm

Won't be due to lack of power steering fluid. More likely because of it. It washes the grease out of the rack, especially the inner ball joints.

Post Sat Oct 07, 2006 3:57 pm

Sadness !

changed the subframe bushes today.

no change to my shit steering problem.

Dont see the big deal in changing the subrame bushes though .

only took 2 hrs

Post Sat Oct 07, 2006 4:28 pm

bigdek wrote:
Dont see the big deal in changing the subrame bushes though .

only took 2 hrs

Yours can't have been there growing roots for sixteen years!
Check the tracking on this car. Doesn't take much of a knock on a front wheel to put it out enough to make it feel unstable.