Re: Heat shield? (melting steering rack bushings)

[Gary Huff <scirocco86@home.com>]

Good question, and no. Now im wondering why my 16v car didn't have this, otherwise I would have kept it and re-attached it to the manual rack! Damn. Looks like it's header wrap on the downpipe with maybe something of a small homemade heatshield between the both just for kicks. 
	-ghuff

On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 10:00:49AM -0700, Alex Ting wrote:
> 
> have you tried using a heatshield from the power rack?
> It covers the passenger side bushing completely.
> 
> Alex Ting
> '88 ///M3
> '90 jetta gli
> '87 16v rocco
> '86 zender z400 callaway rocco
> 
> Senior Account Manager
> Millennium Solutions Group, Inc.
> 1364 Blue Oaks Blvd. Ste 100
> Roseville, CA 95678
> 
> Phone:  888.801.2001 ext. 228 or 916.671.2001
> Fax:  916.671.2000
> email:  alext@nu2u.net
> www.nu2u.net
> www.millenniumsolutions.net
> icq# 19613213
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gary Huff" <scirocco86@home.com>
> To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 9:06 AM
> Subject: Heat shield? (melting steering rack bushings)
> 
> 
> > So, I have a TT 2.5" downpipe on my 16v car, and converted it to manual
> steering. Here's the problem, the TT downpipe doesn't have a heatshield.
> Consequently, it gets hot and starts to melt the passenger side steering
> rack bushing. Not cool. Is there a manual rack heatshield which I am
> missing, or should I just build something out of whatever seemingly flexible
> metal I can find at home depot? Anyone else have this problem? I need to
> have this car aligned, but I don't want to have it aligned when the rack
> bushing is slowly melting, and altering steering rack position over time
> ( I figure maybe if there isn't one available, I could make one out of
> sheetmetal, or something that would just go directly between the downpipe &
> bushing, using the upper bushing bolt as a mounting point. Doesn't sound too
> hard. Is there something I can get that's factory or off another VW which
> would do the trick?
> > -ghuff
> >
> >
> > --
> > Email LIST problems to: scirocco-l-probs@scirocco.org.
> > To unsubscibe send "unsubscribe scirocco-l" in the message to
> majordomo@scirocco.org
> 

--
Email LIST problems to: scirocco-l-probs@scirocco.org.
To unsubscibe send "unsubscribe scirocco-l" in the message to majordomo@scirocco.org