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MG MGA - RHD Steering Rack and Pinion Needed

Anyone have one? Please let me know. My '59 MGA has an LHD MGB rack flipped upsiddown on it, and I'd like to set the car up properly!

Thanks,

Alan
AD Seigrist

hi try

www.60sclassics.co.uk

they should have one in stock
p chamberlain

I don't think promoting your own business in the open forum is proper etiquette, Mr Chanberlain. Then again, I'm sure you already know that. If you want to advertise your business, the proper place for that is in the PAID FOR advertisers section.
Andy Bounsall

sorry i was just trying to help the guy out.
p chamberlain

You are exactly a week too late - I had two last week.
dominic clancy

Just re-read my earlier post and it comes across a good deal snootier than I'd meant it to. Sorry. I guess what bugged me was that it seemed you were acting as if '60sclassics' was someone else. If you're just trying to help someone out then say something like "I have one available. Email me at...".
Andy Bounsall

If you just turn the steering rack upside-down, doesn't this make the front wheels go the other way?
I drove a trick car in The Netherlands once where this had been done and the wheels went left when you turned the steering right. Quite an interesting experience but not something I'd want on the public roads.
Presumably they have done something else to correct this.
Dan Smithers

The LHD steering works correctly if you turn the rack upside down AND move the pinion end to the RHD side.
You need some mental gymnastics for this.
On the LHD car you turn the steering wheel clockwise and the rack recedes into the short end of the tube (the pinion is below the rack). The car turns right.
You turn it upside down, but with the short end (pinion end) on the right. You turn the steering wheel clockwise and the rack recedes into the short end of the tube (the pinion is now above the rack). The car again turns right.

I think!

Mick
Mick Anderson

The Morris Minor and the midget use the same steering rack, but upside down in the Midget. But if I remember correctly the steering arms are in front of the wheels on the Midget, and at the back in the Minor????

Tore
Tore

If you just turned a rack upside down, but RHD remained RHD surely the steering column would be pointing forward from the rack and pointing to the ground?

Mick
Mick Anderson

I am confused now.
If you turn a rack upside down and change from LHD to RHD the pinion shaft would correctly point towards rear of the car, but point down.
It is during the day in the UK can someone look at a rack out of the car?
It is near midnight here and I am going to sleep on it. I have a spare rack or two in the shed. I will look at them tomorrow.

Mick
Mick Anderson

Just to clarify: In the Minor/Midget case a RHD Minor rack becomes a LHD Midget rack, and vice versa.

Tore
Tore

surely its easier just to buy an mga right hand drive rack. it fits straight on, no messing about
p chamberlain

I have looked at a steering rack assembly out of the car. When you turn a LHD rack upside down and put it in a RHD position the wheels would turn the wrong way, clockwise steering wheel movement turns left. Also, the pinion shaft points towards the ground.
Full marks to Dan.
Alan, can you please explain your setup?

Mick
Mick Anderson

This thread was discussed between 25/09/2007 and 27/09/2007

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