Restoration of Canadian Scout Car Ford Lynx I, Mk.III No.1726

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When you re-cant a story like this one it is easy to get things out of order or to miss some photos you want to show.

This has happened here. In post #104. the steering box had been refitted but without photos. Well I found some.

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One of the three holding bolts had sheared off many years ago below the steering box mounting face. Plenty of heat did no good. I had to carefully centre punch the broken bolt and then gently drill it out using about 4 drills of increasing size until the thread was just visible and then I taped the remainder out. That took about 4 hours to do.

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I then was able to pull it all apart and get the bearing sizes for new bearings as mentioned in post #104.

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Re-assemble was straight forward. I had to set the box up with the steering shaft in the centre where the steering wheel would have been at mid position. I tightened the adjusting screw just enough to remove any play between the roller and the worm, then replaced the lock plate and tightened up the lock nut.

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There is a bit of a trick to remove or replace the roller shaft cover. (The red primed one in this photo.) You have to turn the adjusting screw in the centre of the cover in a clockwise direction until the screw driver slot is clear of the cover. The cover is then slid off sideways off the end of the selector shaft. Re-assembly is done the reverse way.

Regards Rick.