Onto the Cobra next.
After pulling the cover off, I found plenty of dust, so I pulled out the Stihl petrol powered blower to get the dust off.
And moved him over he hoist.
These are the Aussie Mike Murphy new steering rod ends he built for me.
I needed them to gain clearance between the tie rod end and the bulge in tyre sidewall.
Here you can see the new ends are much more compact than the old.
So I pulled the rack out and shortened the new thicker steering rods, re tapped thread to the length I measured I needed and bolted all in place.
Here you can see I know have plenty of clearance, the original tie rod end hung a fair bit lower, and on full lock would rub against the tyre sidewall.
I bought this from eBay USA many months ago as I struggle to find anyone in Alice willing to do an alignment on the Cobra (fella I used to use has left town)
I used it on Mildred Sunday and then on the Cobra Thursday, very happy and very easy to use.
After a quick drive, all was good, so the Cobra got a bath before heading to Scrutineeing and made ready for parade.
Had a ball on the parade, The SummerNats guys where blown away as we had approx 380 cars in cruise (Canberra they are limited to 200)
I got a pic with the Promo girls after the cruise.
