I have a 98 V6 with a GTA steering rack and subframe on it. It came off a car that had been crashed. I can't remember which side it was but one of the track rods was bent, so I did the obvious thing and replaced it with the track rod off the v6.
I didn't compare the 2 in terms of length. At least I think I didn't.
We set the rack up by finding the centre of its lock to lock movement whilst it was on the car and set the wheels parallel as best we could using the thread on the track rods.
I took the car to be tracked yesterday. One wheel was 10mm out. It was then set to GTA spec.
Guy then sticks his head out and tells me the track rods are way out in terms of thread left per side and asks me if I want it sorting? I agreed and left thinking all was now good.
I very quickly realised that all was not good. From straight ahead I have ~0.7 turns of left hand lock and ~1.0 of right hand lock.
I think its because the V6 track rod is different to the GTA one?
However, I took it back and told the to back the rack off to what I thought would be central and bring the wheels back in line on tracking adjustment.
They obliged but I still have the same problem. 1.0 turn of right hand and .75 of left. WTF?
So I have no idea what's going on. You can't buy track rods seperate from the rack, I have no idea which side the gta/v6 track rod is on........
B*****KS!