Upgrade steering parts

[xXxPARAGONxXx]

Nah, 1/4 turn before it breaks…

How many uggah-duggahs?

 

[Orpedcrow]

How many uggah-duggahs?

On those little 1/4-20 bolts, just 2 uggah-duggahs

 

[454cid]

I noticed the same so I backed the nuts off a bit as they were starting to pinch/compress the coupler too much.

Yes, mine ia all deformed becasue I torqued to spec. The steering wheel is also crooked. If I do it over again, I won't tighten them down that far.

 

[xXxPARAGONxXx]

Yes, mine ia all deformed becasue I torqued to spec. The steering wheel is also crooked. If I do it over again, I won't tighten them down that far.

It made the steering wheel crooked? Damn!

 

[454cid]

It made the steering wheel crooked? Damn!

I think its because there is play rotationally before the bolts are tightened up.

 

[Orpedcrow]

Mines crooked too, I wonder if it’s from the rag joint?

 

[norton]

sent an @mail to Lares support for have some info about torque value and rubber disk distorsion problem..

this was the reply:
"The torque specs are correct. With that said if the disk is a little compressed that's ok, however the only time I have ever run into this issue before is when the customer's torque wrench wasn't calibrated correctly."

when it would have been much better to include two bushings in the kit, for metal-to-metal compression, to have the right compression on the rubber disk...

anyway take a look at this video

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there are other installation videos as well and none have the rubber disc straight after tightening it
they also have the wrong torque wrench

 

[xXxPARAGONxXx]

Typical lack of customer service mentality.