Reply to "Pantera steering rack question......"

The rack is made by Cam Gears.
They had manufacturing facilities in Europe, UK & Australia supplying the automotive industry with components in the 1970’s.
They made racks for Ford, (Cortina, Escort etc) BMC, (Mini’s) & others.
I was recently talking to Johnny Woods about suitable RHD racks for the Pantera as I figured being in the UK he may have found a suitable RHD rack to do conversions.
He commented that it is in fact a rack that was also used in the 308 Ferrari & to avoid using it if possible as it’s badly designed & has a short life.

I will be hunting through wrecking yards soon to try & find a suitable replacement of similar ratio.
A slightly shorter rack will help cure the bump steer.
If you run a line between top & bottom suspension arm pivot points, the rack end ball-joint centre should intersect this theoretical line.
Currently the rack end ball joint is approx 30mm outboard of this intersection point.
This causes the wheels to steer with suspension travel, (bump steer).

Regards,
Tony.