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Steering Rack & Suspension Off

The worst summer in a 100 years or more should surely mean spending more time indoors - like in my garage or updating this blog, but that's not been the case. As there had been a serious power leak thanks to a loose main hydraulic hose connector the drivers (RHD) side of the steering rack, wishbone and cross-member are caked in a thick layer of grime. It looked particularly sad so I decided to begin stripping off the whole shebang for a thorough clean with a view to replacing knackered parts with shiney new ones. Disconnecting the hoses and draining the power steering fluid is straight forward. For the most part removing the rack is easy but when it came to the tie-rod ends it was impossible to loosen them when the rack was on the car. With the rack removed I could get the leverage to remove these 26 year old bits.  Next it was time to clean the rack - I used some GUNK Green degreaser from Halfruads that did a great job. The aluminium and steel shaft cleaned up a tre