SkurdalenFox
08-24-2006, 10:08 AM
I’m wrapping up the installation of a ‘04 Cobra rack and peanut into my 92 coupe and have a question about the orientation of the universal joints. The stock fox steering shaft had the upper u-joint situated such that the shafts of the u-joints were pointing at 12/6 and 3/9 o’clock with the wheel in the straight ahead position. With my new rack centered the u-joints in the MMST-13 are slightly off. They are at ~1/7 and 4/10 o’clock.
So, I have two questions.
1. I am concerned that my rack may not be centered properly.
2. Obviously, I don’t want faster steering in one direction than the other. Nor do I want jerky/inconsistent rotation. Will this occur or is the angle not steep enough for it to cause a substantive rotational speed variation?
I can’t do anything about the angle of the two shafts, but I could open up the rack and clock it to put the u-joints back at 12/6 and 3/9. I guess what I’m really asking if all the trouble of doing that is worth the gains to be had. If that is, I just don't have the rack centered properly.
This picture shows the angle of the shafts to one another, but does not show the orientation of the u-joints with the rack and wheel centered and the wheel straight ahead.
http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k30/skurdalen/7ce3f55b.jpg
So, I have two questions.
1. I am concerned that my rack may not be centered properly.
2. Obviously, I don’t want faster steering in one direction than the other. Nor do I want jerky/inconsistent rotation. Will this occur or is the angle not steep enough for it to cause a substantive rotational speed variation?
I can’t do anything about the angle of the two shafts, but I could open up the rack and clock it to put the u-joints back at 12/6 and 3/9. I guess what I’m really asking if all the trouble of doing that is worth the gains to be had. If that is, I just don't have the rack centered properly.
This picture shows the angle of the shafts to one another, but does not show the orientation of the u-joints with the rack and wheel centered and the wheel straight ahead.
http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k30/skurdalen/7ce3f55b.jpg