Lotus Elite / Eclat / Excel

I have a pair of brand new rear springs and dampers for sale. The springs are standard Lotus, the dampers are Protec adjustable. I can e-mail pictures on request but if you look on SJs site there are pictures of the items on there. £220.00 including postage. ( cost £310.00 ncl postage ) Bank Transfe...

lets hope not!.........

Thanks Shaun! Last summer I thought I might have it moving under it's own steam by this summer - ain't going to happen!! Because I'm pig-headed and want to do everything myself I've had to re-wire the shed before I could re-build the lathe with a variable frequency drive speed control - that's beca...

If the old one is still in one piece its not too hard to get one made from scratch. Cost was a out £250 IIRC

Shaun

Lovely neat job on those brake pipes Pete . Do you have a target for completion or are you just taking it a day at a time?
Shaun

Could also be the rotor arm. Especially if you have the type thats rivited.

Shaun

Now sold.................

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Shaun

Some of you will know about the problems I've had with the steering on my car being stiff and notchy. During my quest to solve the problem I decided to try a second reconditioned steering rack thinking the first reconditioned rack may have been badly set up . Sadly, after installing the second rack ...

Sounds like good Idea Richard. I'd be up for that. Ideas wise, tying in a factory visit would be amazing if feesable!

Regards
Shaun

Great, thanks chaps. Looks like I'll need to buy a small torque wrench and a digital measuring tool. Pete, your method of measuring the turning torque is more or less what I had in mind but I must admit I hadn't considered the need to add the length of the molegrips! Obvious now you've mentioned it ...

Pete /Bash I found the preload procedure online on a Ford Sierra Cosworth forum. Can I just check that this is same as the procedure in the Lotus service notes: 1. Centralise steering rack and assemble yoke and spring into pinion 2. Coat thread of yoke with Loctite 542 , tighten plug to 3.4 - 4 nm u...

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Thu Jul 23, 2020 09:14

Empirically adjusted !!! I will have to remember that one.
Bash

I had to look that up

Just checked the readout results from when the tracking was done after the new rack was installed. Left and right wheels both well within specified range for caster and cross caster bang in the middle of specified range. Toe is bang on too.

Shaun

You will have to remove the rack to do this properly. You need to be able to measure the turning torque on the pinion and that's going to be difficult with the rack in situ. You also need to measure the turning torque throughout to full travel of the rack bar ideally, or at least at it's stiffest p...