rotoflex Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 Some animal got under the hood of the GT6 & shredded the steering rack boots.The top halves are completely gone, exposing the stuff beneath, & making things worse, the animal left some kind of orange sand or red dirt there on top of the grease & components.So it looks like I must remove the rack & clean away the gritty stuff.Before I pull out the factory shop manual which will tell me how to reduce the rack to the molecular level using specialized Churchill tools, does anyone have any suggestions on how to proceed with cleaning away a superficial layer of sand or whatever on the exposed areas?I''m assuming it was squirrels, but how they tracked sand in there is beyond me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clive Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 Boots off,set the rack so one side is fully out (guess you may want to give the other end a wipe down first) then I would wipe down, possibly spray with solvent of some kind.However, there is nothing to taking the ball joint assemblies off the rack, you just need a couple of large spanners (wrenches!) after knocking the locking tags back. Then you can give them a thorough clean and re-grease.just done that on mine, and going to take them apart again soon so I can pop a spacer in to restrict the the full lock on the car. (I used a bit of old rack tube welded to spare some spare ball joint big nuts, all from a bent rack) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uksnatcher Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velocita Rosso Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 Nuts! ;D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT6 M Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 Bill they are v easy to tek apart.only thing is, you will need 2 big spanners, these for the end nuts.if you take the wheels off, and then slacken the nuts on the end opposite the steering shaft, then you can, after taking the the pinion out, pull the lot out from the rack tube.but you may loose the wee nylon bit underneath the clamp. unless you take one clamp off, then you might as well tek both off.a vice is a handy thing to have as weelif theres wear in the bush end, then replace they no that dearit is easy, rgds Marcus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rotoflex Posted February 17, 2012 Author Share Posted February 17, 2012 Thank you gentlemen, here's hoping for the time on Saturday! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferny Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 Could have been this type of animal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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