SER1 Steering problem

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Hi folks,
I was wondering if anyone had any ideas to this odd problem we've just got.
I'ts not a Series 1 but my fiancee's 1960 109 Series 2 so similar 
enough.... We got it stuck up against a fence on sloping muddy ground and 
had a lot of shunting up and down to get it out. Driving home afterwards we 
noticed a dramatic reduction in right hand steering lock. Like the two 
right turns we did involved pavement and a hedge to get it round. There was 
nothing obviously broken or bent. The following day I jacked up the front 
end, the steering moves from lock to lock quite smoothly, with not too much 
play at the wheel. To make it more drivable  I removed the steering arm off 
the box, centralised the steering wheel, so it was in the middle of the 3 
and a half turns from lock to lock, or whatever, centralised the front 
wheels and bunged it back on. Its better, but still obviously not right. 
The result is a much reduced left lock, but not as bad as the previous 
right lock, and the right lock is sort of livable with.
Obviously that comes under the 'first aid' catagory rather than a repair, 
but we're not sure what the problem is. I'm guessing at a problem with the 
steering box, but I've never come across one do this before.
Any ideas?
cheers
Iaim



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