Steering rack

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Steering rack

Post by wrcpulsar » Sat Nov 24, 2012 8:19 pm

Well couple of weeks ago I had steering pump whine then all of a sudden no steering limped it to my workshop and looked through the wheel and power steering fluid was poring out of the rack garters :FIREdevil:

Anyway phone Audi they wanted £1100 just for the rack so phoned a rack recon place I use they said £180 as long as the internal shaft wasn't shot,so next thought I'd do some research on taking it out ,I was all of a sudden not so happy reading that u have to remove the engine to change it anyway that wasn't going to happen as so busy don't have the room in my workshop so tackled the job from the drivers side wheel arch after making a tool to get to the $1000 bolt it was out in about an hour and a half just to realise the shaft was shot so back to finding a new or recon rack after much searching and comparing I managed to find one for £230 I won't say we're from as don't want to upset the traders on here once I got it it took about an hour to refit and hay presto she is back on the road just shows that big jobs aren't always that big lol

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Re: Steering rack

Post by jamesthecat » Sat Nov 24, 2012 8:36 pm

Come on spill the beans,any pictures of the tool you made?And why would you upset the traders?I thought these places are to help each other out with problems with the cars :beerchug:
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Re: Steering rack

Post by wrcpulsar » Sat Nov 24, 2012 8:44 pm

Hi mate I will take a pic of the tool we made to be honest the tool is nothing special the bottom bolt is still abit fiddley but a 100 times easier than taking the engine out lol

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Re: Steering rack

Post by jamesthecat » Sat Nov 24, 2012 8:47 pm

Or paying audi £1100 :bowdown:
cars,mk1 1.3 escort,mk 3 1.6 cortina,mk 1 granada 3.0s,1.7 morris marina,hillman imp,mini with worsley engine,
mk 4 2.0 cortina,mk 1 xr2, mk2 xr2, 2.0glsi sierra,mk 3 jag,subrau turbo x3,golf mk 1 gti,skoda octavia elagance,
evo 6,evo 8,rover 1.4tc,golf gttdi,toyota surf 2.4,toyota surf 3.0 skoda superb elagance x2,
rs6 x4.land cruiser amazon 4.2td, mr2.
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Re: Steering rack

Post by wrcpulsar » Sat Nov 24, 2012 8:51 pm

If u need info mate pm me

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Re: Steering rack

Post by Shoppinit » Sun Nov 25, 2012 10:16 am

wrcpulsar wrote:I won't say we're from as don't want to upset the traders on here
Tell footlong, he won't mind upsetting the traders. And I won't cry for them too much either.
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Re: Steering rack

Post by Mr Footlong » Sun Nov 25, 2012 11:06 am

You know me too well. Sounds like a techncal article/doc to add to the repository. ;)
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Re: Steering rack

Post by wrcpulsar » Sun Nov 25, 2012 11:31 am

Just wish i had took pics of the hole job now :-(

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Re: Steering rack

Post by Mr Footlong » Sun Nov 25, 2012 11:39 am

is that similar to a rim job? The interweb is full of those.
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23' C8 RS6 Vorsprung - 23' RS E-Tron GT Carbon Vorsprung

Gone:

"Brutus"- C5 RS6 Avant - MRC stage 2 - Milltek non-res + 100 cell cats - Wagner ICs - PSS9 - H&R ARBs - OZ Superturismo LM - C6 Custom brakes - HD RNS-E - Various other bits - 555PS/832Nm
"Taz"- C7 RS6 - MRC stage 2 745PS/1095Nm
12' Cayenne Turbo, B7 RS4, S3, Cupra R, XJR, EVO VII, STI8,5,2&WRX, 106 GTI&XSI, other crap.

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Re: Steering rack

Post by wrcpulsar » Sun Nov 25, 2012 12:41 pm

Lol

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Re: Steering rack

Post by Ceveman73 » Wed Dec 12, 2012 8:11 pm

Hi WRC,

You have PM.

Cheers,

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Re: Steering rack

Post by RS6JJL » Sun Dec 16, 2012 10:27 pm

yes do tell

save us the big bills and engine out hassle!
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Re: Steering rack

Post by Ceveman73 » Mon Dec 17, 2012 4:41 pm

OP has gone very quiet! I am somewhat skeptical that he managed to remove the rack in under two hours to be honest... I know MRC do it this way, but even then it takes them 5 hours to remove, and that's with a proper ramp and all the right tools.

Would love to be proven wrong though! ;)

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