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Update on my "clunking" steering rack and how long to change one? 700 1988

posted by  someone claiming to be Aaron on  Wed Jul 4 01:26 CST 2001 [RELATED]

hey all,

I've finally had the problem diagnosed with my volvos clunking steering, it appears that the rack itself is worn, the guy at the suspension/steering place reckons in his life he has NEVER seen a rack quite so worn on a car.....mine only has 203,000k's on it, it is a "cam" rack....it has a large amount of movement in the main steering bar thingy inside the rack, it is internal to the rack, so a remanurfactured one is the only choice....one guy quoted 645 aussie dollars (506 for rack, 99 for labour (at 1.5 hours) and 40 for wheel alignment) and he reckons about 1.5 - 2 hours labour, whereas another place quoted at least 4-5 hours....is someone pulling my leg here?????For 1.5 hours, i'd get someone else to do it, but not for 4-5....Has anyone else had a dealer do it??

Just for a laugh for you US guys, volvo here couldn't give an exact price, but they did say that it'd cost nearly $4000 for a *new* rack for my car, which, to tell you the truth, i found to be a complete and utter joke!!!

TIA!!!

Az





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