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3. Refit the steering column grommet in the hole
in the bulkhead.
4. Loosely attach the steering column to the dash
and bulkhead brackets, and bolt the steering
box to the front side member.
Check the alignment of the steering column
clip relative to the upper column bracket.
5. If there is malalignment, remove the steering
box from the front side member and refit
with packing washers as required. It is most
Important to ensure that there Is no tension
In the steering column.
6. Tighten the nuts and bolts securing the steering
column to the dash and bulkhead brackets.
7. Jack up the car. Refit the drop arm on its
correct splines and secure with a nut and new
tab washer. Lower the jack.
8. Refit the dash reinforcement, crash roll pad,
trafficator switch, overdrive switch, steering
column cowls, hand wheel, horn switch assem
bly, dipstick, oil filter outer casing and element,
petrol pump, distributor, and scuttle bracing
tube. The fitting procedures for all these
items will be the reversal of those given under
"to remove".
9. Reconnect tachometer drive.
10. Test.
To remove from
car-(Rapier)
1. Disconnect the battery at the positive terminal.
2. Remove the steering column cowling as
previously described.
3. Remove the direction indicator switch, as
previously described, and the striker ring
from the upper end of the Inner column. Also
remove the overdrive switch If fitted.
4. Remove the horn ring assembly as previously
described.
5. Remove the steering wheel as previously
described.
6. Disconnect the parcel tray on the driver's side
and drop It clear of the steering column.
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Section J (Steerin1)
7. Jack up the front of the car and remove nut
and tab washer securing the drop arm to the
rocker shaft.
8. Loosen the three bolts securing the steering
unit to the front side member to enable the
drop arm remover to be fitted.
9. Remove the drop arm using special tool No.
·
RG.198.
10. Lower the jack.
11. Disconnect the steering column support clip
from the upper column bracket leaving the
bracket itself In position.
12. To simplify the withdrawal of the steering unit,
move the front seat back as far as it will go
and loosen off the bolts securing the clutch
and brake master cylinders to the bulkhead.
13. Remove the three bolts securing the steering
unit to the front side member.
14. Lower the upper end of the steering column
and remove the column grommet from hole
in the bulkhead.
15. Raise the forward end of the unit, twist it
sideways and ease out over the bonnet aperture.
Note.-On left-hand drive cars it will also be
necessary to remove the battery and cradle
before �he steering unit can be withdrawn.
To refit
1. Position the steering unit so that the splined
end of the column is inserted Into the hole in
the bulkhead and the rocker shaft Is pointing
upwards.
2. Push the steering column through the hole In
the bulkhead, turning the rocker shaft the
right way round as It comes clear of the bonnet
aperture.
3. Refit the bulkhead grommet.
4. Secure the unit to the front side member and
check the alignment of the upper column
,
bracket and support clip. If the support clip
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