hit a curb, need a steering part...
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hit a curb, need a steering part...
Bloody hell. I hit a curb and messed up my steering rod. I've checked everything else, and the parts are fine, but the damn rod is bent.
So, do any of you have either an extra rod (see pic attached, part number 32-240A) or a steering rack they are willing to sell?
The Mazda dealerwill only sell the whole rack, and at $1200... hah!
So, do any of you have either an extra rod (see pic attached, part number 32-240A) or a steering rack they are willing to sell?
The Mazda dealerwill only sell the whole rack, and at $1200... hah!
Last edited by rotarynews.com; Dec 27, 2001 at 08:55 PM.
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Wet streets in vegas
one thing that sucks about vegas: if there is any amount of water on the street, driving is like on black ice.
I was coming out of the post office, they had the sprinklers on, and there was a 30-40 mph wind that was carring all the water into the 2nd lane of a 6 lane road. I gun it out of the PO, since there is some traffic approaching (fairly far away) I fishtail, try to recover, grip, and bam, right into the curb with my front passenger wheel. The rim is fine, but that little rod is bent, I have some *Neet* toe-in now, but only on one side
The dealer wanted $3900 to redo every freaking thing in the front of the car... shocks, springs (?!) bushings, steering pump,(?!) steering rack, lower arm,
I already have everything on that list, minus the steering rack, sitting in my garage, waiting for a weekend when I can slap it all on... (it will be this weekend, now!)
As an aside, when Berny Herrara was in town for SEMA, he commented on how shinny the steets were at night (with the steel lights reflecting off the pavement/backtop) it is something I've never really noticed... but that shine is the result of 200+ degree tems at the pavement level, over 4 months in the summer, with 100 days between rains (all 4 inches a year we get around here[ 2 inches usually drops in a half an hour in a thunder storm or two in July and August])
I was coming out of the post office, they had the sprinklers on, and there was a 30-40 mph wind that was carring all the water into the 2nd lane of a 6 lane road. I gun it out of the PO, since there is some traffic approaching (fairly far away) I fishtail, try to recover, grip, and bam, right into the curb with my front passenger wheel. The rim is fine, but that little rod is bent, I have some *Neet* toe-in now, but only on one side
The dealer wanted $3900 to redo every freaking thing in the front of the car... shocks, springs (?!) bushings, steering pump,(?!) steering rack, lower arm,
I already have everything on that list, minus the steering rack, sitting in my garage, waiting for a weekend when I can slap it all on... (it will be this weekend, now!)
As an aside, when Berny Herrara was in town for SEMA, he commented on how shinny the steets were at night (with the steel lights reflecting off the pavement/backtop) it is something I've never really noticed... but that shine is the result of 200+ degree tems at the pavement level, over 4 months in the summer, with 100 days between rains (all 4 inches a year we get around here[ 2 inches usually drops in a half an hour in a thunder storm or two in July and August])