(29-05-2019, 10:19 PM)Charles P Wrote: Having done this very adjustment a couple of months ago I now have the correct die to elongate the threads. Shout if you want to borrow it Duncan.
Charles
Charles, for the general benefit of mankind, would you be so kind as to reveal what thread it is exactly?
Just one of those anecdotes with which we like to obfuscate these discussions, but the track rod on my Ulster rep was cut and shut in the middle, presumably to match a slightly narrowed axle. The joint was made with a bit of tube slid inside and then welded around the periphery. The weld finally gave out after about 30 years' service, as I was traversing a series of hairpin bends on a mountain track between Sweden and Norway. It was only detectable as a general mushiness in the steering, which I stopped to investigate at the next petrol station, having driven for some miles in that state. I don't think the two halves ever completely separated but the tracking must have been all over the place as the outer wandered up and down the remaining bit of internal tube. I guess the general moral is, if you are going to modify these parts, make a good solid job of the welding!