Jason240z

So pulled it apart, it seems not all racks are the same. This is pre-loaded on a brass bucket and spring. I've got it apart, can't find any wear, however can't rotate the any part as they're not ended the same. Lots of plastic hard 40 year old grease removed, which might have created the feeling of the 'notch'. a bit of wear on the brass bearings/shims inside the outer rack, however should be fine. i'll have to rebuild to check its just rock hard grease that's caused the feeling. I had to scrape it off with a stanley blade. What have others done when rebuilding theirs? Also how many have replaced the steering rod UJ? Mines got a good mm of play in it, its a service part So pulled it apart, it seems not all racks are the same. This is pre-loaded on a brass bucket and spring. I've got it apart, can't find any wear, however can't rotate the any part as they're not ended the same. Lots of plastic hard 40 year old grease removed, which might have created the feeling of the 'notch'. a bit of wear on the brass bearings/shims inside the outer rack, however should be fine. i'll have to rebuild to check its just rock hard grease that's caused the feeling. What have others done when rebuilding theirs? Also how many have replaced the steering rod UJ? Mines got a good mm of play in it, its a service part.

All the sold prices point towards it being so. The fact that its just a regular model at over twice the normal sale price for such a car. It wasn't even a factory correct version. Someone paid for it by bidding with Ego, only the seller won there.

madness isn't it. A complete random blip on values though. I thought it was sweet how the regular bidders on that sellers cars were bidding against each other.

Its with the rack and pinion all installed, just the steering shaft removed, straight side to side movement.

Here goes.... Started to look at my steering rack before I look at putting it on. Good: Rod ends are perfect, zero play minimal if zero backlash Bad: when the rack is centered, there's almost a dead spot, a tiny notch you can feel when sliding the rack side to side by hand. I couldn't see any damage on the rack, so I guess its on the worm gear and rack combined around the dead center spot, anyone had this? I can't find specs for measuring the rack 'teeth'. how do I narrow the culprit? Steering shaft U joints have a MM of play or so, however I think I can find these..... Any steering rack gods?

You can see the casting marks? Not a bad thing, my AP's are cast versions! They're then machined after on certain faces, you can see how the logo's been altered, its even a different colour.

What makes you say that? Looks like one of their off the shelf calipers, from the pics. its no bad thing.

What I don't get is the little circus that about 3 or 4 people have on their between themselves? It reads like they're bidding as they want to to be the first to pay 100K. I think we should let them. A fool and his money are easily parted.

They're off the shelf calipers, obviously very decent ones. You can even see the 'spacer' that's used to alter the width.

Well under half that, larger discs, fit under 14's ?

Thats odd isn't it? Why so big rear? Nice shaped calipers though. Yours are cast, you can see the casting marks.

what size are the rear discs?

I'd put money that they're off the shelf calipers, otherwise could you imagine the costs involved?

Do you know why they went trailing caliper, then leading for the rear? Is that a sticker on the caliper? Do you have to run a second caliper at the rear for parking or is it built in like the classic vw design?

what make are the calipers? Mine are 286mm and clear 14" wheels with ease. 295 will fit under 14"

whats the disc size and thickness? Also total all up weight of the components? I've been working on something similar

Its a nice car, you can't say anything 'bad' about it. However its not been restored to total factory 'spec/standards'. Nice car though.

Welcome to the forum soggyfish. There's no jealousy here, at all. That car has been on every facebook group in the whole galaxy over 10000000 times. Maybe I just dont' really appreciate dealers/flippers/speculators clogging up everything for their own interests. Its a nice car. Glad you joined here to contribute your opinions, all opinions are welcome.

Nice to see it finally listed so he can stop advertising it everywhere.

I watched the video?' i'm not sure if you said that was at the wheels or not?

was that figure at the wheels?

https://www.dunlop.eu/en_gb/consumer/tires/sport_classic.SPTCLASSIC.html https://classic.michelin.com/en/Classic-Tyre-range

There's so many of them, thats what some people seem to forget! Even with a 90% death rate, there's still so many out there. The fact that the 432 went for 65 or 80k(can't remember which), where as the restored blue one went for 49k, this is at 43k(i'd prefer this one) shows just how strange and immature the market is.

feel free to answer the below. The history is quite a bit more vague than the scarabs. They didn't make 74 cars, the company that now owns the name is hoping to try and cash in on it, with a dubious start. Some of the cars were nothing more than a set of triples and wheels. There's 3 or 4 with good history(big sam), the rest are without it(69 cars and counting) Some cars called samurais are not classed as so by the guy that came up with the concept, theres more cars being added to the register each year. Theres no set spec, no set design, no set anything.

Welcome to the classiczcar.com forum. I've only pointed out facts. not taken anything away from the display you've organised. Facts are facts.