[V8] Steering Rack Centering

[Ron Wainwright]

That tool is for adjusting the toe on the tie rod
ends.
 You can be off a few splines at the steering wheel.
You replaced the rack? you had the wheel off for
something?

 Ron

--- d saad <dsaad at icehouse.net> wrote:

> 
> 
> Do you have the Bentley?
> 
> There is a tool - probably just a pin
> - that you lock the steering rack with while doing
> an alignment. Nobody
> does this of course but this is the factory
> procedure and documented in
> the manual.
> 
> I don't think the steering shaft can be off a tooth
> at the rack/shaft connection or the shaft/u-joint
> connection but maybe at
> the steering wheel. Have you had it off?
> 
> Dave
> 
> >
> I'd like to verify if my rack needs alignment or if
> my steering wheel
> is
> > off one spline.  Is there a way to verify that the
> rack is
> centered?  A
> > bolt hole to stick something in?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Scott S.
> >
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