Quote Originally Posted by metros View Post
most I could move it was like a millimeter.
I couldn't move it much either but assuming that 1 mm was the full movement of the shaft from fully loaded counterclockwise (CCW) to fully loaded clockwise (CW) thats only on an input shaft that measures 18mm in diameter. But, when you multiply that slop out to a full size steering wheel like an OMP Corsica 330 (330 mm diameter) the slop from CCW to CW is ~ 18.3 mm. That's almost 3/4 of an inch of dead input when switching directions in an AutoX slalom. That's almost 3/4 of an inch of dead input when correcting/catching your car as it goes into oversteer.

Unless you meant 1mm of movement from rest to fully loaded going only one way. Then we're looking at ~ 36.6mm of of dead area, and 36.6mm of dead area is like watching the Duke Boys drive the General Lee straight while being filmed in the studio. Like lumberjacks, they sawed at it.