thanks
we'll see how things are once car is back and we can get a few miles done so that all the joints have had time to be "flexed"
thanks for your help
Mike
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Originally Posted by David C
My 406 is now pretty much ready for regular use bar fitting the seat belts.
When I first drove it the handling was horrible. Hitting potholes or bumps would throw the car sideways. This was caused by a mixture of dampers that hadn't been used for over a decade, over inflated superannuated crossplies, play in track rod ends and sticking kingpin due to blocked Enots chassis lubrication.
I strongly suggest you take the track rod ends apart, temporarily remove the spring and put back together with additional shims until you have got rid of the last thou of play. Then put back together with the spring. On my 406 one side needed about 4 thou and the other side about 20 thou.
Undo Enots hoses from top of king pins and make sure oil comes out. Use oil can to force oil into hub where hose just came out and see if oil comes out in a dribble or a flood. My car's kingpin had been ground and re-bushed very shortly before being laid up but the Enots pipe was still blocked as was the oilway in the kingpin.
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