steering rack travel

[Jason1]

Hi Gary

only that you said something about Frank Bertrang not minding

Point taken, no disrespect meant on my part. I was just saying that the file was freely available to download so I believe it was Frank's intention that the info be free to anyone who was interested.

To take the info and sell it on would have been wrong.

Jason

[rdssdi]

Where is the Buckland book for sale in the U.S.?

Not in stock on Amazon.

Bob

1969 Lotus Elan +2
1968 TVR Vixen

[garyeanderson]

Where is the Buckland book for sale in the U.S.?

Not in stock on Amazon.

Bob

1969 Lotus Elan +2
1968 TVR Vixen

David Kayser used to have copies in stock. Call him to find out.
http://chelsealit.com/

For your immediate literature needs
please call us at: (732) 321-0146
OR fax your requests to: (732) 548-0696
OR email: [email protected]

Foster Cooperstein more than likely has copies also.

business-listings-f3/tottenham-lane-motoring-literature-t824.html

Gary

[msd1107]

Ohhh, terrible situation.

None of the normal places has the book. And Chelsea Motoring Literatures' price is still daunting.

I emailed Brian when the book first came out to order it. He referred me to Dave Bean. Try there.

David
1968 36/7988

[garyeanderson]

Brian Buckland has an extensive discussion of the steering rack, track rods, and their subtle differences between Herald, Spitfire, S1-S3, S4 on, and +2 on pages 412-425.

Also a warning about checking everything, especially if you are using different or replaced components or have changed tyre sizes.

David
1968 36/7988

Thats all well and good but the book is a lot of money and most folks here won't spend the money (me included) for it. The original Elan workshop manual for the S1 S2 and Coupe is another must have that every Elan and Plus2 owner should have. It comes up on ebay once in a while and goes for around $40 to $80, the same goes with the S1,S2, coupe master parts list but this never seems to come up on ebay.

Gary

It's been a while since I was logged in as myself. I guess that it was necessary to remove some info which took a couple of years it seems to reach me. Brian Buckland wasn't happy with my explanation of rack limiters (or more to the point my dimensions). It seems I fell victim to the old "lets changes the parts at a point and continue". Well I was negligent and didn't look in the parts book for the revisions to the rack spacers that occurred "somewhere" in the S4/Sprint time frame. I had a blanket statement which was WRONG. There are lots of instances where info is given and is bogus. It happens more and more especially with other repeating it. I pulled out much of what was written. I still don't understand if it was that big of a issue that it needed a "club Lotus" article to be written then maybe it ought to be posted here on elan.net.

Gary