Knocking/rubbing When Hard Cornering..

[Guest Takumi]

Hello all, what a fantastic summer were finally having..

 

Just a wanting some ideas, - when I'm cornering hard I'm getting a knoocking through the steering, on both left and right turns.. More so when I'm accelerating hard out.. it feels just like a worn CV joint on a front wheel drive..

 

what could be causing this..? The front wheels clear everything, and nothing comes close to touching the rotating wheel.. Could it be caused by the rear end? a worn CV joint(s) and the knocking travelling throught the chassis and manifesting in the steering rack..?

 

Any ideas, this is really annoying..

 

thnx for reading

 

 

tak

[Guest salty_monk]

Probably latent damage from when you hit that tyre wall... the chassis is bent...

[Mitch]

more likely to be steering contacting the exhaust manifold,

 

HTH

Mitch

[Guest Takumi]

ill check the steering shaft - good idea..

 

as for the Chassis!!

 

thnx

[Jon Green]

I have a slight contact problem between exhaust manifold and steering shaft but it only happens on left hand bends when the engine + manifold moves towards the steering shaft. On Right hand corners the gap gets bigger. Unless you have a differnet manifold steering shaft arrangement (steering shaft through the manifold) in not sure it's possible to get them to touch when the engine moves both ways... Just a thought!

 

Jon

[Guest timswait]

When you say hard cornering do you mean lots of steering lock, lots of laternal g force, or a combination of both? I think worn/loose front wheel bearings may cause a knock when subject to high cornering loads (as in high g). If your suspesnion doesn't have enough travel on one of the ball joints at full lock that may cause it if it only happens at full lock...

[Guest Takumi]

yes. only on lots of lock, could it be the steering rack coming to the end of its travel?

[Guest elwe]

I get a knocking on right hand bends at high G. Since I changed engines the prop can contact the tunnel side under high G. I need to move the rear gearbox mount slightly to the left.

[Guest Takumi]

used to get the prop hitting the tunnel, when the gear box cone rubber boot mounting moved to much, thats gone now and the gear box is bolted straight to the chassis at the back..

 

My knocking seems like a mystery..

[Guest Gpayne]

my steering shaft use to catch the alternator on left turn and exhaust on right turns sorted now