Monday, January 30, 2012

Steering quickener

After installing the new steering arms, the steering effort was lower but the wheels did not turn as much with each revolution of the steering wheel. I wasn't too concerned until I took the car for a drive and realized that some hard back and forth on the steering wheel didn't result in a lot of lateral movement of the car. I considered changing to a quicker ratio steering rack but the MGB-GT rack is already only 2 turns lock to lock and only dedicated racing (read-expensive) racks are quicker. My solution was to add an Afco 2:1 steering quickener. It is basically a gearbox that takes one turn of the input shaft and  changes it to two turns of the output shaft. Here is a picture of it installed between the steering wheel and rack and pinion with video link just below the pic:
Video of before and after

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