[b][user=1552]David[/user] wrote: [/b][quote]Your picture of the “wire locking on a steering rack you have just overhauled again with the greatest respect, does reflect your experience, however VOSA do change and update the Regulations periodically in light of changing technology. Most testers today on a daily basis probably would not see a steering pinion of that nature. You do make mention that the locking is not “effective” because if the left hand bolt turns anticlockwise then the wire over it’s head will slip off and loosen. Am I right to think that looking at that bolt there is what appears to be a hole through the bolt, approximately at the one o clock position not used, or is it something else I can see on the bolt, (just going off what the picture appears like) if so should the wire not be passed through both bolts before being twisted together, would that not be a better idea, and should that be possible, then if one of those bolts were to become loose, unless the wire corrodes away completely, then at worst they would be loose, which means in the current regulations a (Pass & Advise), because insecurity of those bolts is not covered in the up to date reg’s as far as I can tell.
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David, the locking wire IS going through the head of BOTH bolts.
