Steering Rack Rebuild ??

[davidinnyc]

Decided to try out a rebuilder out of Michigan--shlpped them the rack that I cleaned up (exterior), new internal bearings, new hydro pipes, boots, (inner) tie rods (I supplied) and going in next week....

New seals?

[PSUEng]

New seals?

Yes, forgot to add that to my post [updated].

[Peacockr]

Hi all -

First - sorry, I've been traveling a bit for work and should be back in LA early next week. I'll get to the DMs and work out shipping there! (I originally joined the boards thinking I'd move back to NYC after moving to LA for work but haven't, so the name stuck).

Second - I went through my emails (I ordered a lot of different bearings for different projects) and the F208801.4 that I had sourced are actually genuine INA (the NTN bearings I have from Japan are for the pinion shaft, but that's another conversation).

Third - someone asked what I used to pull the inner seal and I actually bought a tool to remove the inner seal from PST which is labeled as an steering rack inner oil seal extractor... it was about $300 give or take with shipping. I bought it because I'm very meticulous, OCD and didn't want to damange any part of the tube. I'll get a chance to use it again since I've decided to help a neighbor on my street rebuild another yellow tag for his E46 M3.

Which leads me to my fourth point - if anyone wants, I think I can probably rebuild these racks pretty quickly now without any damage to the pinion, rack, enclosure, piping, etc. because I've spent money buying the tools to do so. If anyone is up for it, I'm happy to do it (my wife will hate me but I enjoy these types of things). I have no idea what Rack Doctor used to charge (see that name come up a ton on the boards) but there is a local steering rack rebuild company (where I got the bearings from, who got them from a distributor) that charges $850 for an already rebuilt rack and $650 to rebuild yellow tag rack.

David

Are you still rebuilding racks? I'm located in Ventura and my yellow tag 712 rack is leaking from one of the end seals.

[Peacockr]

davidinnyc I can't private message you so I probably won't be able to respond to your messages either. I read your post about rebuilding steering racks and so I joined hoping to contact you.