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Overhauling the 409 power steering (January 2017)
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The 409 was a true luxury car in its time and
mine, chassis number 7355, was the first Bristol to be equipped as a
series component of a power steering system. That was one of the reasons
why I bought her, and I was very happy with it. Recently, though, it began
to work less well. For this reason the
first job that I asked Marco Gordini to put forward in 2017 was the overhauling of
the steering box and power steering pump
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The brake disc is quite good, behind it you can see
the ZF steering box and the pump is on the right, barely out of this pic
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While overhauling the steering box and servo,
Marco found that the front R/H wheel bearing were in bad shape, so he
replaced them. This may explain why the tire shop had found it impossible
to fix the correct geometry of the front wheels; the 409 tracked straight
as an arrow anyway
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The front hub
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The damaged R/H front wheel bearing and its cage
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The front hub being reassembled with new wheel
bearings
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23 January 2017
The best way to celebrate the 50th birthday of
'409-7355' (she was built in 1966 and delivered in January 1967) was to
give her a good thorough cleaning and a blast at 100+ mph (on a unlimited
German highway, of course!) to dry everything before putting her to rest
for some time....
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