Austarion

why when you look at the specs for a kirby-bishop steering rack does it say 'variable ratio' when the thing is about a variable as my butt? it even has it embossed on the housing?!? WTF??

does anyone have any info on these stupid things? for something thats made in aus i cant find nutting.

Why don't you look in the phone book. Or even search the web.

http://www.aebishop.com

Don't put shit on a quality bit of Oz engineering that's on about 20% of the cars built world wide.

ahhhh, thanks for the website. i cant find this stuff at the moment due to spyware infection :x

hehehe, sorry, wasnt 'puting shit' on it, more of a pun, screw - turn.... ahhhh forget it.

i found my prob anyway, all of there racks are var ratio, exept for the one i just happen to have, but still uses the same case as the otheres with var ratio written on it. back to the wrecker guy i go...............

What would you like to know about these steering racks?

Why do you think yours isnt a variable ratio?

scum,
what do you want to know about the rack?

well, i know the top-screwy-thingy is a bastard to get out, Holden made it a bastard to get out the car, and when it was built some bastard forgot to put grease in it. so it goes in the bin. back in 5. right, got another one. this one has grease and seems to be var ratio (the teeth get further apart) where the other one was not, hence its stupid truck - like 5 turns lock to lock... damn camiras, that must have been made by request for Holden, nobody else would want it. anyway, i just gotta make it 160 something mm longer now so it can bolt from chassis rail to rail. i do wish they used a spline like everyone else, this i assume was a request from Holden too as they prob felt the spline cost too much to make. so they used square bar :( what other cars came with these racks?

alrighty now, i have just concluded that my last 3 weeks of thinking and measuring where a waste of time. when i started i did some basic measurements for the positioning of the inner ball joints by hand. i used these as a basic reference to make sure all later measurements where not miles off. so tonight i have finished all the hard work and it turns out my hand done basic measurements where 0.30mm out, 0.60mm across the whole width of the car. not bad, but makes me feel like an idiot for wasting all that time. anyway, i wanted to be sure. does anyone here get bump-steer or anything else with there starion? bugger it, i want a poll, who likes steering boxes. (i know you all dont like them, i just wanna rub it in :D ) anything else ppl dont like about there starion steering? except of course for the flower power steering pump :x anyhoo, if mark II.. or uhhh, mark III..... hrmmm maybe it was mark... bugger it, this one better work :x

I like my Starion steering

No leaks, really good turning circle, and feels solid on the road. :)

Cant ask for much more. Its one of the few things that hasn't broken. :glare:

Hopefully I didn't just jinx it :glare: