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[Chaddyfynn]

I'm trying to re-thread the top of a steering column I have to fix it up as the nut won't thread onto it. Does anyone know the correct die I need for it?

[Compdoc]

ACH6001 steering wheel nut.

This is an 11/16" x 28tpi thread and uses 1-5/16 socket. This same part number is used on the Morris Minor, MGB etc.

https://www.ebay.co....A0AAOSwFYZa-F3v

Not sure if finding a die this size will be all that easy though. Good luck.
 

 

 

[Spider]

I have this thread listed as 5/8" x 28tpi, but don't take that as gospel, best check to be sure.

 

I've cleaned these threads up on the Lathe in the past as the threads are quite odd-ball.

 

A google and I found these guys list a die nut;-

 

https://uni-thread.c...ecial_items.php

 

[Chaddyfynn]

I have found a few dies

Edited by Chaddyfynn, 29 December 2019 - 10:54 PM.

[Chaddyfynn]

I have this thread listed as 5/8" x 28tpi, but don't take that as gospel, best check to be sure.

 

I've cleaned these threads up on the Lathe in the past as the threads are quite odd-ball.

 

A google and I found these guys list a die nut;-

 

https://uni-thread.c...ecial_items.php

 

 

ACH6001 steering wheel nut.

This is an 11/16" x 28tpi thread and uses 1-5/16 socket. This same part number is used on the Morris Minor, MGB etc.

https://www.ebay.co....A0AAOSwFYZa-F3v

Not sure if finding a die this size will be all that easy though. Good luck.
 

 

Aye, cheers. I've found a few 28tpi dies, one is 5/8", the other is 11/16". I'll ask around to see which would be best, but they're both almost indistinguishable from each other. Thank you for the thread 'depth'.

[Dusky]

On big threads Like those ive had thread files save the day more than once :)

[Homersimpson]

I had to do one one a MK2 jag halfshaft and I bought a die the correct size, cut it in half using a 1mm grinding disc and then put it on to the good part of the thread then fitted the die wrench over it and wound it off which repaired the thread.

 

This is it here:  https://www.jaguarfo...e3/#post2001668

 

This worked really well for me.

[DeadSquare]

I once did much the same for Len Brammer at Mallory park.

 

He decided to fit a tiny steering wheel after practice, and ended up damaging the thread on the column.

 

His pal had an 1100, from which I "borrowed" the nut;  cut it in two with somebody's junior hack-saw, and then repeatedly heated both halves on a camping stove, doused both with sugar and quenched them.

 

As above, I placed both halves round the column, binding them with insulation tape until I could just get a socket over them, and cleaned up the thread very nicely as I wound it off, only to find that he had also damaged the nut.

 

He raced with the two halves of the nut inside the socket, bound onto the steering wheel with more tape, and his pal drove home the same way.