[STEERING COLUMN MOVEMENT]

If you are talking about the nuts / bolts shown in the photos which is directly under the suspension housing

 

Hi Richard, yes the same ones (where the steering column connects with the steering rack). It could be that the garage that replaced the steering column / rack joint did so with nyloc nuts.. I need to get in closer to have a look and assess what's what but my suspicion is that this nut needs replacing and possibly a washer added (as discussed above).  Before I added the horn earth strap the steering column had no adverse movement, but the horn only worked intermittently.. as with most things you fix one problem only to cause another!

[STEERING COLUMN MOVEMENT]

A good read, this.  I have the same issue and think the problem may be the same and might have been caused by me removing the nut in order to fit the horn earth strap. When I tried to refit the nut the plastic locking ring on the inside of the nut seemed to fail and it meant the nut was rotating but the inner plastic locking ring wasn't moving so a replacement is due.  It fixed my non-functional horn though!

[Surrey meet]

http://www.tssc.org.uk/tssc/areas_final.asp?area_ID=41&area=South%20East,%20Surrey

[Surrey meet]

I managed to get along to my first meet down in Surrey, and what a nice bunch of people! Shame I didn't get home from work in time to get my GT6 out of the garage, but I hope to next time.

 

Here's a few pictures of the car which I managed to wipe off my phone a week or so ago:

 

 

 

Before the engine work:

 

 

After the engine work:

 

 

Interior prior to re-doing the seat foams:

 

 

Cheers for the warm welcome on a less than warm evening, and see you all soon!

 

Jeremy

[Garage in West London]

I took my GT6 for a few repairs to Crown Classic Cars in St Margarets near Richmond and on one of the occasions they had it MOT'd at Jubilee Service Centre in Isleworth:

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=51.468489,-0.326302&ll=51.468519,-0.326307&spn=0.003402,0.007972&num=1&t=m&z=18&iwloc=A

[Hoot knows the answer to this ?? !!]

 

those are hammer and c hisel marks from muppet action when a socket is not available

 

I have the same muppet action on mine too! What is the appropriate torque rating for the wheel nut? Or where could I find it? Nothing I could find in the workshop manual I have or the Haynes.. I have a '69 GT6 mk2. 

 

TIA

Jerry

[New Forest Run]

Great stuff. I've registered so I'm hoping its going to be better weather than last year! First meet in over a year so I'm looking to give the car a bit of a run!

[New Forest Run]

Hi All,

 

I'm hoping to get out to this one if it doesn't rain like it did last year.. is anyone else heading down?  I'm going to be setting off from south London, so I guess hitting the M3. 

 

Cheers