3000M steering column bush

[threespins]

Hi guys,
the steering column bush, the one at the bottom that goes through the car body, what is it off and are they obtainable. The one on my car looks like it is packed with string that is unwinding!
regards,
G.

[adrian@]

Hi Graham
That's because it is packed with string.....the bodyshell seal is simply a piece of ambla cloth with the shaft pushed through the middle (on earlier cars there was a rubber grommet that did the job) and then held in place by a metal plate on the engine bay side with rivets or self-tapping screws.
Adrian

[threespins]

thanks Adrian, so should there be something on the cabin side to stop the string coming out?

[adrian@]

Err, NO. Great technical engineering from TVR .....the original square plate with a large hole in it which held the rubber grommet which was just tooooo expensive. SO, 2 off-cuts of ambla placed back to back that had been lying around the trim shop floor were then cut into pretty squares with a cross cut into the middle with a sharp axe! so that the steeriing shaft could be then forced through..... hey-presto! a bodyshell to engine bay seal that would last 30 years and then fall apart degrading into Tut' part rubber and part white string vest (it's what all good TVR ambla is made out of sir)
Adrian

Edited by adrian@ on Monday 19th June 20:21