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MG MGA - Steering shaft universal

Getting ready to blast and refinish some parts, and had a minor detail question. The yoke pieces for the steering shaft u-joint don't appear to have any sign of ever having had a finish applied. Were these parts originally left bare at the factory? I looked through the Clausager book and didn't notice anything showing it in detail.
Del Rawlins

Painted satin black.
Barry
BM Gannon

Del, I've been looking at some original photos I took of my car prior to restoration and even though the steering shaft U-joint was covered in surface rust I can see some original black paint. I painted mine in satin black.

Andy
Andy Preston

Thanks. It turns out that one of the pinch bolts had worked loose, and some of the looseness I had thought was in the joint was actually the yoke around the steering rack input shaft. It won't tighten up on that shaft, but the good half does, and I should have an extra assembly from my parts car in the shed somewhere. So, only a minor setback.

I guess it is possible that the joint assembly was replaced at some point, and the pinch bolt wasn't properly tightened. That could explain there not having been even a trace of paint on those parts.
Del Rawlins

Del, Barney has some information about curing the slackness in the UJ shaft clamp. See here http://mgaguru.com/mgtech/care/csm/mg214.pdf
Lindsay Sampford

That's interesting, because the yoke pieces from both of my assemblies already have the hole that is shown in the service bulletin. They must have incorporated the modification into production; the letter is dated in February of '58, and both of my joint assemblies are from '59 1500s. I did see what looked like paint fragments on the second assembly, but it was pretty faint.
Del Rawlins

This thread was discussed on 22/01/2010

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