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Old 02-12-2007, 06:06 PM
pj67coll pj67coll is offline
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If your car is a 108 series you need to make an extremely thorough inpsection for rust everywhere. Be especially careful to check the steering box mounting bolts where they mount to the box frame of the chasis. Make sure they are torqued to the correct spec and that the frame itself is not rusted. My 71 280S snapped the steering column when the chassis where it was mounted rusted thru. The rest of the car had less visible rust than your pictures indicate so you do need to make sure your car does not have the same problem.

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