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WHAT we’re doing, and HOW we’re doing it!
October 6, 2025
We are well known among the sidescreen community for rebuilding TR2-TR3B steering boxes, averaging 2 per month over the last 15-16 years, but did you also know that we rebuild all of our own TR4-TR6 steering racks as well? Special bushing reamers are required to rebuild the early steering boxes, and we had to make a couple of our own special tools to be able to work on the steering racks. (Another good excuse to have our own machine shop!) Careful measurements and adjustment of shim packs are required to rebuild the early boxes, and the same task is also repeated with the steering racks. Here you see the setup for measuring pinion end float, and then this float is adjusted by adding or removing shims from the stack. The more things change, the more they stay the same! While we don’t recommend rack and pinion steering conversions for the sidescreen cars (due to incorrect geometry changes), we are equally well versed on the racks for the Triumphs that were designed to use them.
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Macy’s Garage
© 2018-2025 - Macy’s Garage, Ltd.
Blog
WHAT we’re doing, and HOW we’re doing it!
October 6, 2025
We are well known among the sidescreen community for rebuilding TR2-TR3B steering boxes, averaging 2 per month over the last 15-16 years, but did you also know that we rebuild all of our own TR4-TR6 steering racks as well? Special bushing reamers are required to rebuild the early steering boxes, and we had to make a couple of our own special tools to be able to work on the steering racks. (Another good excuse to have our own machine shop!) Careful measurements and adjustment of shim packs are required to rebuild the early boxes, and the same task is also repeated with the steering racks. Here you see the setup for measuring pinion end float, and then this float is adjusted by adding or removing shims from the stack. The more things change, the more they stay the same! While we don’t recommend rack and pinion steering conversions for the sidescreen cars (due to incorrect geometry changes), we are equally well versed on the racks for the Triumphs that were designed to use them.
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