Manual Steering Adjustment

RustyRatRod said

You know me. I do stuff "different" lol.

That adjustment bolt with the locknut does one thing and that's all. And here come the arguments.

All it does is take up the slack in the sector shaft bearings as they wear.
That's my opinion. Your results may vary.
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Not quite, the teeth on the sector shaft are ground with a taper in them so when you adjust the sector your actually meshing the teeth tighter against the recirculating ball nut on the worn shaft, has nothing to do with the sector shaft bearings. The taper on the sector teeth is also why you have to make your adjustment on the "high spot" it's all in how the teeth mesh with each other.