1966/'69 A100 Twins Build
Been doing a load of back-reading to catch up again here.
Those steering boxes are rarer than Rocking-horse scat.....so I have contacted a local machine shop to see if they can help repair what I have as a spare. The bearing faces shown in the picture (your pic with arrows attached) show the most common and hardest part to repair. You need to either have someone build up and re-face the bearing surfaces - then heat treat, or try and re-face the bearing surface to suit the next size ball bearing up - which happens to be 8mm.
I have sourced the ball bearings here - OE size and the 8mm, and will attempt to have the surface re-faced.
The other thing is you may need to make your own gaskets if the originals are worn too much.
...and yes, mine were orange from original. Technology of these steering boxes is from the 1940's......there is nothing out there that is close to a retro-fit in case anyone suggest it. I have spent many hours over the past five years trying to find something close.
The closest I got was a special order reverse direction Vega Power steering box. Still a little bit big, but with soe adaptor plates it would work.
Hi Jim,
Been doing a load of back-reading to catch up again here.
Those steering boxes are rarer than Rocking-horse scat.....so I have contacted a local machine shop to see if they can help repair what I have as a spare. The bearing faces shown in the picture (your pic with arrows attached) show the most common and hardest part to repair. You need to either have someone build up and re-face the bearing surfaces - then heat treat, or try and re-face the bearing surface to suit the next size ball bearing up - which happens to be 8mm.
I have sourced the ball bearings here - OE size and the 8mm, and will attempt to have the surface re-faced.
The other thing is you may need to make your own gaskets if the originals are worn too much.
...and yes, mine were orange from original. Technology of these steering boxes is from the 1940's......there is nothing out there that is close to a retro-fit in case anyone suggest it. I have spent many hours over the past five years trying to find something close.
The closest I got was a special order reverse direction Vega Power steering box. Still a little bit big, but with soe adaptor plates it would work.