dieseldog69 · Apr 6, 2019

Salvageable or not?

Steering shaft of my D1

Stilsons gripped it good an tight then all of a sudden it went rather loose but not as though I'd shifted the bar on the threads

Carry on tomorrow with a bit of heat or replace the steering bar and chalk it up Discovery 1 DieselDog 0

jamesmartin · Apr 6, 2019

its ok

neilly · Apr 6, 2019

steering bar??

you mean drag or track rod?

Cheers

dieseldog69 · Apr 6, 2019

neilly said:
steering bar??

you mean drag or track rod?

Cheers

Depends on where you comes from it can be referred to as a steering bar, steering rod, drag rod, drag bar, drag link.

A track rod is exactly that, a rod or bar that maintains the steering track.

I referenced the steering bar, the bar/rod that connects the steering box to the swivel hub.

neilly · Apr 6, 2019

dieseldog69 said:
Depends on where you comes from it can be referred to as a steering bar, steering rod, drag rod, drag bar, drag link.

A track rod is exactly that, a rod or bar that maintains the steering track.

I referenced the steering bar, the bar/rod that connects the steering box to the swivel hub.

I am surprised as this is your toy, that it does not have HD units fitted.

Cheers

dieseldog69 · Apr 6, 2019

neilly said:
I am surprised as this is your toy, that it does not have HD units fitted.

Cheers

To be perfectly honest mate I have been in two minds over them for years, one part says go HD and happy days, sort of fit and forget all bar the BJs but then I have moved the point of failure from a cheap bar that can bend quite easily and also be removed and bent back into rough shape to get me home to a TRE or even worse a broken steering arm on the swivel or broken king pins.

It's a conundrum that's for sure but I have been thinking about this for a while and I think I will get some spare original rods and fit them up with new TREs set to correct lengths to be loaded up with the spare half shafts and CVs for the P&P days with the tools for that "just in case I break or bend" safety blanket.

bankz5152 · Apr 6, 2019

Go HD. Ive never damaged a hub or a pin and youve seen what my 110s been through.

Makes life much easier. Garages will actually do your tracking for one and it takes minutes and two spanners to change a TRE.

Hicap phill · Apr 6, 2019

I found a HD item in the shed today.
Never fitted this.
Now to look under mine to see where the other is fitted

May have got these as they were cheaper & I changed/modified the drop arm.

Gazbo · Apr 7, 2019

dieseldog69 said:
Salvageable or not?

Steering shaft of my D1

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Stilsons gripped it good an tight then all of a sudden it went rather loose but not as though I'd shifted the bar on the threads

Carry on tomorrow with a bit of heat or replace the steering bar and chalk it up Discovery 1 DieselDog 0

Don't need to use heat, give it a good soak in WD40 or similar, remove the clamp ring, put the rod and rod end on a heavy steel block or anvil and beat it around the outside in the threaded area with a 2 lb hammer, keep spraying the threaded area with WD keep rotating the rod on the anvil/block whilst hammering the outside around the threaded area, the thread will loosen and screw out pretty much by hand. Remove the rod end and, if you are not replacing it with a new one, wire brush the thread and grease before replacement into the rod.
By way of correction, terminology, the steering shaft would normally be the Shaft that connects the steering wheel to the steering box, what you're looking at is normally tie rod, drag link track rod, just sayin' like...

dieseldog69 · Apr 7, 2019

Gazbo said:
Don't need to use heat, give it a good soak in WD40 or similar, remove the clamp ring, put the rod and rod end on a heavy steel block or anvil and beat it around the outside in the threaded area with a 2 lb hammer, keep spraying the threaded area with WD keep rotating the rod on the anvil/block whilst hammering the outside around the threaded area, the thread will loosen and screw out pretty much by hand. Remove the rod end and, if you are not replacing it with a new one, wire brush the thread and grease before replacement into the rod.
By way of correction, terminology, the steering shaft would normally be the Shaft that connects the steering wheel to the steering box, what you're looking at is normally tie rod, drag link track rod, just sayin' like...

Not quite sure how shaft landed in the opening, in my head from looking at another bit that's demanding cash being spent on it with new hardy spicers, never ending it is

Gazbo · Apr 7, 2019

dieseldog69 said:
Not quite sure how shaft landed in the opening, in my head from looking at another bit that's demanding cash being spent on it with new hardy spicers, never ending it is

Yes mate, all good, by now everyone on here should know my feelings on the 4x4 accessories/parts business and it's effect on a bank account. But, hey, I was younger and more enthusiastic once and spent my share of hard earned on useful and useless bits and pieces to "improve" a vehicle that had taken a shed full of professional engineers years to design, and in my LandRover's case, much more capable off road than I could ever drive it.
But it was fun I recall.

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