Legal Bill
Jedi Knight
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Here's an interesting problem. As I recall, the "tight spot" on the steering was supposed to coincide with the steering wheel's dead center position. This is important to the rest of the story.
I was tired of the 1 inch of play in my steering and decided to tighten it up. After adjusting it (front end jacked up) I turned the wheel lock to lock and noticed the tight spot for the first time. I also noticed it encounters it when the steering wheel (and road wheels) was off to the left by a good bit. So now with about 1/2 inch or less of play, I have a tight spot (for the first time) that I encounter as I'm coming out of a left had intersection turn. It hits at about 1/4 of a turn and I feel it on the return to center. And I have to turn the steering wheel past this point, the car will not straighten out by simply repeating the steering wheel as it had before.
Any idea how this happened? Was the steering box disassembled and rebuilt incorrectly with the worm or peg out of place? Is there some way for me to align it correctly? Can this be done without removing the steering box?
Thank you for reading and thanks in advance for your thoughts.
Best regards,
Bill
I was tired of the 1 inch of play in my steering and decided to tighten it up. After adjusting it (front end jacked up) I turned the wheel lock to lock and noticed the tight spot for the first time. I also noticed it encounters it when the steering wheel (and road wheels) was off to the left by a good bit. So now with about 1/2 inch or less of play, I have a tight spot (for the first time) that I encounter as I'm coming out of a left had intersection turn. It hits at about 1/4 of a turn and I feel it on the return to center. And I have to turn the steering wheel past this point, the car will not straighten out by simply repeating the steering wheel as it had before.
Any idea how this happened? Was the steering box disassembled and rebuilt incorrectly with the worm or peg out of place? Is there some way for me to align it correctly? Can this be done without removing the steering box?
Thank you for reading and thanks in advance for your thoughts.
Best regards,
Bill