Help! My steering wheel/column is loose!
05-26-2011, 06:17 PM
#47
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Pub, please refer to my pic earlier. Note the 928 steel sleeve.
The star washer, if obstructing the sleeve, may come out. Otherwise, a few pick tools can be bought from an auto parts store or hardware store, or Sears. You should be able to get it out.
If the c-clip was damaged from overtightening, then i'd replace it.
You might have damaged the steering bearing. If so, then the entire column will have to come out. You might get lucky by placing a block of wood over the steering shaft and hit it hard with a hammer to push the shaft back down, and free the bearing. But it might already be toast too.
The star washer, if obstructing the sleeve, may come out. Otherwise, a few pick tools can be bought from an auto parts store or hardware store, or Sears. You should be able to get it out.
If the c-clip was damaged from overtightening, then i'd replace it.
You might have damaged the steering bearing. If so, then the entire column will have to come out. You might get lucky by placing a block of wood over the steering shaft and hit it hard with a hammer to push the shaft back down, and free the bearing. But it might already be toast too.
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Another option
Another homemade bushing option:
Went to Lowe's & got the plastic end protectors off a 3/4" x 6" copper repair pipe (packaging material in the bin or stuck in the end of the pipe), cut it with an exacto knife to make a bushing, put that in where the original plastic part of the bearing was, put over that a 7/8 x 1 3/8 x 18ga machine bushing (washer - Lowe's part # 321326 found in the specialty parts drawer in Hardware). Not sure I needed that but the collar dia is smaller than the original so this provides insurance against it backing out. Over that goes the star washer, tapped in with screwdriver.
Went to Lowe's & got the plastic end protectors off a 3/4" x 6" copper repair pipe (packaging material in the bin or stuck in the end of the pipe), cut it with an exacto knife to make a bushing, put that in where the original plastic part of the bearing was, put over that a 7/8 x 1 3/8 x 18ga machine bushing (washer - Lowe's part # 321326 found in the specialty parts drawer in Hardware). Not sure I needed that but the collar dia is smaller than the original so this provides insurance against it backing out. Over that goes the star washer, tapped in with screwdriver.
