aosborn said:
Does the car wander, or is it too easy to steer (over-assisted)?
Two different issues, or maybe a combination of two issues. A "wander" can (and is likely) an alignment issue. Over-assisted, meaning you can just give the steering wheel a spin like a roulette wheel, is a situation that the Heidt's valve can help with. You need to determine what is really going on before trying to solve the problem.
Let me know if you need more info to help sort this out.
Andy
Hi Andy!!!!
I have ---FINALLY--- come to the conclusion on the wandering,I never looked at this problem like you have suggested Andy ...........Well -- i just did this morning. That is what the problem is......."over assisting" not wandering. You have no idea, how many times i've re-worded this problem in different forums,to find out what the hell was going on.I can align a 50 merc without looking now. [which btw is all good]
This insight showed up as i did this . I screwed the knob on the heidts valve out 7 revolutions, [i marked one half point, and one quarter point turns on the knob] then test drove the car, 5 miles down to my first crossroad, turned around and drove it back.
Each time it felt like it was still wandering, as i twisted the black knob inward on the valve, it started on its path to getting better steering.
Heidts------- just said turn it out- till ya get it. what kind of advice is this i thought...then i would turn it in[restricts flow] of p/s fluid.
As you do this---the over assist....wouldn't change till i got down to 2 turns in.
Now everytime i test drove the kar, it was 5 miles. that amounts to approx ;70 miles /give or take.
It is pretty darn good now, at 2 turns out.
The last thing ,is the instructions do not tell you how far you can adjust this knob in, before you loose the power assist factor.[no fluid returning to the pump]
I plan to call them today for the final words on this.Ain't this a crock . all the questions i asked. And was asking the wrong thing everytime!!!!.
To all the folks who tried to help me.My hat is off to you all . ANDY OSBORN FOUND THE PROBLEM. thanks again to all who participated in helping me. :thumbup: :thumbup:
This is the best hotrod forum on the internet........jalopy journal can't hold a candle to this forum, the way these guys stuck by me was awesome.....and i never use that word
PS Epilouge;this valve [heidts] makes the car dart,because its assisting way to much...this was not mentioned either on the phone or in the instuctions.and i keep tons of instructions on all 18 hotrods i have built you'er gonna need them sometime in the future.