Refitting steering relay and track rods

Looking at the Land Rover green book, fitting a steering relay and track rods seems to be a fairly straightforward job.

Use plently of grease in the bore seems to be the obvious thing to do. I had to press the old one out of the chassis I chopped up.

Before I do it, are there any common problems that I should know about?

Does the shaft need to be in any particular position, or is it able to rotate through 360 degrees?

I am aware of the notch on one side of the casting and the alignment of the arms. This is all in the manual.

What is the "steering relay guard bracket"? This is mentioned in the manual, but isn't shown in the diagrams.

Thanks for any info.

Shaft spins 360 only special thing is alignment of the arms, I found a bit of card with the angles drawn on helped me. Also make sure that the steering wheel is straight when the wheels are. I forgot to with the result that when going dead ahead the wheels about 30 degrees out which is annoying

Possibly copperslip rather than grease. I've had to lever the arms together to get enough grip on the tapers to be able to tighten the nylocks on the track rod ends. Good idea about the cardboard template - I just did mine by eye.

I thought about putting a conventional nut onto the track rod ends first. Once that was tightened I would take it off and then do the nylocs.

I planned to set the arm angle up using a plumb line, chalk and a protractor. The markings are now all done in chalk on the ground, but I only forgot to take the protractor. Hopefully I should get it sorted tomorrow.

I will put small centre punch alignment marks on the top faces of the arms and the spindles in case they ever need to come off again.