Subject: Re: Play in Marles steering box
The shims are actually brass, not steel, so your scissors can breath a sigh of relief. I went to Steering Services in Wimbledon to buy all these parts to do the job myself...and he was happy to sell them, so not essential to make your own.
The shims go where the column joins the box, and also the end plate at the other end of the box; their purpose is to adjust free play in the column bearings, and to centralise the worm gear in relation to the roller.
Colin refers to bushes, whereas my Marles has ball bearings; which emphasises that you'll need to establish which model/variant of Marles box you have there, both to follow the correct instructions & to order parts.
Laurence
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