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Al Greig posted an update 5 years, 2 months ago
I had previously posted about a minor accident I had with my MGTDR. I was driving down one of our local streets when the steering wheel no longer steered the front wheels and I wound up hitting a traffic signal pole. Luckily I was not traveling at speed and was not hurt, but if it had happened driving on the highway results would have been much worse. Inspecting the car afterword’s, I found the coupling disk between the steering gear box and the steering column had failed having become brittle with age. When I built the car I reused the assembly from the donor car which was a 1972, so the coupling was 47 years old.
I have been cognizant about checking the rubber brake lines for deterioration but it never occurred to me to check this item. I would suggest this is something that can impact all of our MGTDR’s and should be checked to insure safe driving.
Al Greig
I am glad you are OK – That could have been very bad- I saw your post on my phone a couple of days ago and it prompted me to check mine – thanks for that. I was just looking for your post to make a comment and see how you are doing but can’t find it anyplace as it seems to have disappeared for some reason. Let us know how you are doing.
Dale
Doing well. Hagerty seems to have taken responsibility in tracking down parts, figured it was going to default to me.
Al
Glad to hear – after checking mine I noticed I have the rubber donut but I bolted the steering drive directly instead of cross bolted so the donut does nothing. Seems to be working so leaving as is – all is lined up so no need for the flex I guess.