04-05-2020, 10:58 AM
That looks to be a standard steering box as fitted to all Austin Sevens before 1937, when the design was changed.
This link will provide you with comprehensive advice on the standard box:
http://www.austin7.org/Technical%20Artic...0Overhaul/
But before you go mad, do you have previous experience driving Austin Sevens? Most here have been driving them for years, even decades, and it's very easy for us to overlook the dramatic difference between even a well-sorted Seven steering assembly and that of a 'modern' car (by which I mean from the last fifty or sixty years!). The wayward behaviour you describe sounds pretty normal to me!
This link will provide you with comprehensive advice on the standard box:
http://www.austin7.org/Technical%20Artic...0Overhaul/
But before you go mad, do you have previous experience driving Austin Sevens? Most here have been driving them for years, even decades, and it's very easy for us to overlook the dramatic difference between even a well-sorted Seven steering assembly and that of a 'modern' car (by which I mean from the last fifty or sixty years!). The wayward behaviour you describe sounds pretty normal to me!