Type 44 Jorgen Rack failure

[james accordino]

I've had 1 failure out of 5.  No visible leaking (it
was inside the boot).  Funny steering around center.
Within a week it was leaking out.  They sent me a new
one and would credit my account when they checked for
clean fluid or debris.  I totally flush the system.
Res.\filter\hoses.  All new green gold.

Jim Accordino

--- ben swann <benswann at comcast.net> wrote:
> Well - the Jorgen rack that was installed in the '87
> 5000 tqa was
> defective from the getgo.  It had been presumed by
> the person who
> installed it that he did not tighten a fitting
> properly, then myself
> who saw the problem as a trickle with an occasional
> spurt.  The car is
> now owned by Sean Shoemaker - about one year later -
> and it just failed
> catastrophically when we were taking a long trip to
> FLA from MD.
>
> Jorgen is sending another rack, but at no real
> discount.  Hope this one
> is good.  Sean better get his money back, because
> this rebuild was shot
> from the outset.
>
> Ben
>
> [From: BLEVINSBK at aol.com
> Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 13:58:13 EDT
> Subject: Re: Type 44 Jorgen Rack failure
> To: quattro at audifans.com
>
> In a message dated 4/10/03 10:03:54 AM Eastern
> Daylight Time,
> l.leung at juno.com writes:
>
> <<
>  How many of you whom have replaced their type 44
> steering rack with a
> Jorgen unit have experienced a leakage failure?
>
>  Just curious.
>
>  TIA,
>   >>
>     I put a Jorgen rack in a friends '87 5K. I
> lasted 2 weeks; the boot
> filled with pentosin. I contacted them; they sent me
> another rack. I
> was told at that time they would pay me $90. labor
> to change it out.
> They charged the second rack to my credit card. I
> sent the defective
> rack to them...I received a letter 2 weeks later
> stating: they found
> nothing wrong with the first rack...  yea right..I
> suppose in their
> eyes the boot was intended to fill with oil.:>) They
> credited my card
> for the first rack, except for the shipping charges.
> They refused to
> pay me any labor for doing the job twice. I won't be
> using their
> services again.  Brian]
>
>
>


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