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Re: [alfa] 164 Steering Rack Mount



The one you couldn't remove is part of the rack<g> A new rack comes with this bushing, I'm told. No replacement bushing is available and I've been told the left bushing is hard to get too. I believe my mechanic made Milano rack bushings work. When I had the work done and waited for bushings for a couple of months, I almost posted to the disgest asking about others were doing for these bushings. So I guess I second your question with the revisions in the last sentence.

What does everyone else know about 164 steering rack bushings?

Best Wishes,
Bernie Bennett
Brenham, TX


Thomas Washburn wrote:


I set out to replace the steering-rack bushings in my '91 164 this morning. I removed the four bolts that secure the rack to the subframe. Then I removed both halves of the left side mount and retrieved the old bushing. But when I went to remove the right side mount, it wouldn't come apart.

Even with both bolts completely removed and the rack detached from the subframe, the stamped-steel upper half of the mount remained stuck to the cast-aluminum lower half. And clamped between the mount and the rack was the old bushing I was attempting to replace.

After several unsuccessful attempts to pry the mount apart, I
decided to remove the entire rack for a closer look. Removing a 164 rack is hard enough WITHOUT a bulky right-side mount still attached, but eventually I prevailed.

This is what I found: the upper and lower halves of the mount were held together by thin tubular liners pressed into the through-holes for the attachment bolts. The ends of the liners were flared, keeping the entire mount together and capturing the rubber bushing semi-permanently. Only with the rack out of the
car, and with a lot of elbow grease, could I seperate the mount
halves in order to replace the bushing.

My question: WTF is this nonsense? Has anyone out there seen this before?
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