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RyanV
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 Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 11:29 pm Post subject: How much play should you have in the steering wheel? |
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I have at least a good quarter turn or more. normal?
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TimGud
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| Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2003 6:58 am Post subject: |
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| No,check the center link bushing and check the arm from the center link to the gearbox for play, and adjust the endplay in the steering gearbox. |
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TimGud
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| Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2003 7:40 am Post subject: |
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| Shouldn't be much over 1/2" of freeplay at the wheel. |
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ratwell
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| Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2003 9:18 am Post subject: |
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There are obviously a lot of linkages to check under the bus. If all of them seem solid then check the rubber steering coupler under the steering column above the steering box. The rubber hardens over the years, cracks and turns from this into this. The VW dealer still has the coupler (211 415 417) or just ran out. The mexican reproduction is $10 but a piece of junk.
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nothereanymore
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| Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2003 9:18 am Post subject: |
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1/2" inch freeplay...oh one day perhaps I will live that dream...sigh. 
It will only take $300.00 for a new steering box. |
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JamesT
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| Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2003 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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If the center draglink pin moves side to side. you will either need a new bushing or a new front end.
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ratwell
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Amskeptic
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| Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2003 7:10 pm Post subject: |
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| ratwell wrote: |
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A "new front end" is the drastic cure for the relay lever assembly that includes those center pin bushings, should it detach from the torsion tubes. I have seen but one bus that had a rewelded assembly on the torsion tubes.
It was in a junkyard with a stoved-in roof, looks like the reweld job didn't stick too good.
The "quarter turn" that I read in the post here, sounds like the rubber coupling is gone gone gone.
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