I had to go to work today for a few hours, so that killed any shed time, theres so much play in the steering on Dads that is hard to see where it all comes from, theres definately a lot of wea rin the gears, so much so that i actually over clocks and reverses the steering arm already LOL whilst this seems like a good idea to move the worn area, it also unfortunately reverses the steering , so not a practical solution.
I may just have to bite the bullet and do some cut and shut work. yes its got a plain nut at the moment LOL
The3res also an amazing amount of play and wear in all of the ball joints on the steering linkages, the left wheel for instance, the rose joint, there a full 10 or 12 mm of travel in the linkage before it takes up the slop in the rose joint.
I was looking at how the steering linkage was welded on and it looks to be a smaller diameter section of shaft through the arm then plug welded at the end, bit a proud plug weld, so should be fairly simple to grind off rotate the arm on the shaft and reweld, this would allow a non work section of the gear to be used.
would also allow some new bushes to be slid into place whilst arm was off , so might not be to bad a job
might have to measure up the rose joints etc and order some of them sort the steering and the corks and it will actually run and cut grass LOL
