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Originally Posted by Chris152
ps Is what Haynes calls the 'steering gear' what I'm calling the steering rack?!
If I've got the right pages in the right manual (we have a collection, if you remember?!), it's not the fitting that's tricky, but the setting up/ adjusting balance that's tricky and needs special tools?
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You've got it Chris, i think they use a standard phrase to cover a variety of cars as some have steering boxes instead.
The setting up etc that you describe is more if you overhaul the rack yourself and/or adjust things yourself.
If you buy a reconditioned rack that should already be done.
In other words, it should just be a "spanner job" - old one out, new one in - to do it, obviously making sure the new rack is centralised as close as possible to the centre of the rack when the steering wheel is in the straight ahead position then refit the TREs as you've already had some practice at doing!