You can also make a small shim (circular with a hole to fit the bolt) that will take up the up and down movement.
Big improvement when I did it a few years back.
Emery Stora
77 Kingsley
Frederick, CO
>
> I picked up my coach in west Los Angeles. It had a few different things adding to pretty loose and sloppy steering. Then I drove it all the way
> across LA at rush hour on the way home. It was "interesting".
>
> One thing that I didn't see mentioned in the above. Technique.
>
> If you've never driven a similar vehicle before, the tendency will be to add WAY too much steering input to correct a slight deviation. By the time
> the loose suspension and weight catch up to what you asked for, the coach is now heading in the other direction, only further. So the tendency is to
> over-correct the other direction, and so on, until the coach is wagging down the road like there's a Richter 9 earthquake underway.
>
> Of course, none of that might apply to the PO, but I thought I'd bring it up because I've seen examples where the same coach was easily driven across
> the entire country by one driver, and then pronounced undrivable by another driver.
>
> On mine, a combination of a very worn relay arm (replaced with a Lenzi unit), and adjustment of the steering box had it handling really well - a true
> finger-and-thumb driver now, though nobody's going to mistake it for a sports car. It's helpful to have someone turning the steering wheel back
> and forth to where the front wheels are JUST starting to wiggle. Then look at each component of the system to see which ones move at the input a lot
> more than the output. That will normally show you where the problems are.
>
> Here's a short video I made (please forgive me calling it a "control arm") of my relay arm play, for example:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jRxMjykiw4
> --
> Mark Hickey
> Mesa, AZ
> 1978 Royale Center Kitchen
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Big improvement when I did it a few years back.
Emery Stora
77 Kingsley
Frederick, CO
>
> I picked up my coach in west Los Angeles. It had a few different things adding to pretty loose and sloppy steering. Then I drove it all the way
> across LA at rush hour on the way home. It was "interesting".
>
> One thing that I didn't see mentioned in the above. Technique.
>
> If you've never driven a similar vehicle before, the tendency will be to add WAY too much steering input to correct a slight deviation. By the time
> the loose suspension and weight catch up to what you asked for, the coach is now heading in the other direction, only further. So the tendency is to
> over-correct the other direction, and so on, until the coach is wagging down the road like there's a Richter 9 earthquake underway.
>
> Of course, none of that might apply to the PO, but I thought I'd bring it up because I've seen examples where the same coach was easily driven across
> the entire country by one driver, and then pronounced undrivable by another driver.
>
> On mine, a combination of a very worn relay arm (replaced with a Lenzi unit), and adjustment of the steering box had it handling really well - a true
> finger-and-thumb driver now, though nobody's going to mistake it for a sports car.
It's helpful to have someone turning the steering wheel back> and forth to where the front wheels are JUST starting to wiggle. Then look at each component of the system to see which ones move at the input a lot
> more than the output. That will normally show you where the problems are.
>
> Here's a short video I made (please forgive me calling it a "control arm") of my relay arm play, for example:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jRxMjykiw4
> --
> Mark Hickey
> Mesa, AZ
> 1978 Royale Center Kitchen
>
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