[ROVERNET - UK] Re: Rover 2000 SC Steering Box

[Paul Smith]

The 2000 steering is light with .5 degree of castor.
3500s without power steering tend to be Heavy.

PVS

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fritz Rauschenberg" <wfritz at mindspring.com>
To: <rovernet at lyris.ccdata.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 7:38 PM
Subject: Re: [ROVERNET - UK] Re: Rover 2000 SC Steering Box


> Walter,
> Good luck on that one. Both of my TC's have stiff steering(my wife won't 
> drive either
> of them) & I assumed that was the nature of the beast. Especially since 
> the steering
> wheel turns effortlessly when the car is on jack-stands with the wheels 
> off the
> ground. I realize that may not reveal some binding of a worn component but 
> I felt it
> was a good indicator since both cars were the same. Perhaps a fellow 
> Rovernetter has
> learned something that might enlighten us.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Fritz Rauschenberg
> Atlanta, GA USA
>
> Walter Reynolds wrote:
>
>> I've owned my 1968 Rover 2000SC since July 2004 and ti has always had 
>> stiff
>> steering.  Even stiffer than my 1965 Austin Cambridge and I thought that 
>> was
>> stiff!  In looking at the workshop manual, the Armstrong steering also 
>> has
>> an idler box.  The manual tells how to check and top up the steering box 
>> oil
>> level, but says nothing about the idler, even though the idler box shown 
>> in
>> the manual and on the car has what may be a filler bolt on its top.  When 
>> I
>> checked the level oil level in the steering box, I had to add oil - lots!
>> The gears that I could see looked dry.  When I tried to check the idler 
>> box
>> for its fluid level, oil started to ooze out from under the bolt as soon 
>> as
>> I had it loosened about an eighth of a turn.  The oil that oozed out 
>> looked
>> like graphite in colour, but I was too busy trying to get the nut 
>> tightened
>> to notice the consistency of the ooze.  Can anyone help me with why the 
>> oil
>> started leaking from the top of the idler box as soon as I loosened the
>> bolt.  And how do I go about checking further for the source of the stiff
>> steering.
>>
>> Thanks.  Walter.
>>
>> Walter D. Reynolds
>> 19753 Wildcrest Avenue, Pitt Meadows, B.C.  V3Y 1M3
>> Ph:  604-465-6350   Fax:  604-465-6367
>>
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