Turns out you CAN just slip the steering rack out

[Jemal]

I started down the path of upgrading my 76 wide body to turbo tie rods. My manuals and several Pelicans with more Porsche wisdom than I said I'd have to drop the aluminum cross-member and disturb or drop the entire front suspension to get the steering rack out. I have decades of experience with classic Mini Coopers and their tight confines, so it looked to me that I could just pop the ball joints from the steering arms, and take out the two rack mounting bolts after removing the pinion shaft and the rubber flex-coupling from inside the smugglers box. Yes the tie rods could supposedly be done in the car, but I didn't like the look of that!

Here is how that went:

https://youtu.be/eTU0DiKZRmM

By the way, I've noticed a few embedded videos here recently (Wayne?), but couldn't find the button. Is that founder's privilege or a new capability I can't find?

[porsche930dude]

Good to know. Yeah I did the rack on my 66 mini whithout dropping anything which the internet didnt think was possible. Well the floorboard wasnt super happy about it but it survived.

[andino]

I did my turbo tie rods in the car and it wasn't too bad with the right tools. I think it took me an hour to do both sides. Good to know the rack does come up without dropping the whole subframe though if I ever need to pull it out for maintenance.

[Funracer]

Originally Posted by Jemal

By the way, I've noticed a few embedded videos here recently (Wayne?), but couldn't find the button. Is that founder's privilege or a new capability I can't find?

I had trouble finding it as well. I think I found other episodes from Wayne and the subscribe button was there. Not sure why there is no subscribe button in the embedded vids. Poke around you will find it.

[spuggy]

Originally Posted by Jemal

https://youtu.be/eTU0DiKZRmM

By the way, I've noticed a few embedded videos here recently (Wayne?), but couldn't find the button. Is that founder's privilege or a new capability I can't find?

On YouTube, click "Share", then "Embed" and copy the iframe code block into your post: