Bill Dearborn

A few years ago some guys were installing steering stops on their C5s. Anybody know what they were made of and how they were installed?

I have been sharing my car at autocrosses and the other driver is turning a little too sharply in the paddock area and my DRM ducts are taking a lot of abuse.

Bill

spazegun2213

I'd also like to know

John Shiels

how about small wheel spacer?

jaybar

I remember seeing that kind of product on another forum. I did not pay much attention at the time. As I recall they were plastic and fit in the rack. You would pull the boots and slip these cylinder looking things around the end of the rack. They some how limit the travel of the rack at the extreme end of movement.

David A

I'd love to know too. I'm really frustrated having to replace the flex hose to my DRM's.

mountainbiker2

I have done this before. Go to McMaster-carr and get shaft collars. I can't remember the size. They are 1/2" wide. 2 piece split collar. Aluminum. This is what you have to do. Take off the boot on the passenger side and measure the shaft on the rack. Get a collar that fits around it. Bolt it on and your done with this side. Know for the hard part. Take off the driver side boot and you will see that the collar will have to go into that white sleeve. You measure the opening of that sleeve area. Let's say it's 1 1/2" Thats the size you order for the outside diameter of the collar. The inside dimension of that collar will be to small to go around the rack. You have to file like crazy to get the inside hole big enough to fit over the racks shaft. The reason it goes into that white sleeve is that you can't use the bolts to hold it together. You silicone it back together. That white sleeve is a little hard to get off.

You will see what I mean when you take off the boot.
Pictures are for passenger side. You will have to take off that white sleeve for drivers side and put collar inside it. Silicone it back together. The bolt heads of the collar will hit the rack on the inside at full lock. No problem with passenger side.

Steve

http://www.mcmaster.com/

gkmccready

You can get Nylon shaft collars instead of aluminum. The shaft, on a C6 Z51, is 24mm OD, the nylon bushing as pictured is 42.5mm OD, and the lip of the rack will accept about 45mm ID.

You can use a 15/16" shaft collar... but as noted the head of the bolts that secure it hit before the collar itself bottoms on the rack. You could file the heads down, I guess.

I've been looking for a better solution. I'm thinking a 24mm ID, 43mm OD, 12mm wide poly collar that you just gorilla snot the split together is a workable solution... but I haven't verified it yet.

HeyFred

My home brew steering stops. Material from local hardware store.

jaybar

Sorry but I don't see any pictures.

Heyfred, could you give us some more info on your home brew?

Bill Dearborn

Thanks for the information. Any advantages of nylon over aluminum or the other way around.

The hardware store solution looks like some sort of pipe fitting??

How much reduction in steering do you get with these stops? It only took a couple of turns at full lock for the tire to practically wear through the plastic portion of the DRM duct.

Bill

jaybar

Sorry for the dumb question but the network I was using did not allow pricture to be downloaded.

Gatorac

PVC pipe of the appropriate size.